Ecc 5:19  And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life—this is indeed a gift from Go...

Ecc 5:18  Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given the...

Ecc 5:17  Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud—frustrated, discouraged, and angry.

Ecc 5:15  We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us....

Ecc 5:12  People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich seldom get a good night’s sleep. 

Ecc 5:10  Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!

Ecc 5:15  We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.Ecc 5:16 ...

Ecc 5:6  Don’t let your mouth make you sin. And don’t defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he migh...

Ecc 5:8  Don’t be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, ...

Ecc 5:6  Don’t let your mouth make you sin. And don’t defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he migh...

Ecc 5:4  When you make a promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him.Ecc 5:5 

Ecc 5:3  Too much activity gives you restless dreams; too many words make you a fool.

Ecc 5:1  As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut. It is evil to make mindless offerings to God.Ecc 5:2 

Ecc 4:13  It is better to be a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king who refuses all advice.Ecc 4:14  Such a youth could...

Ecc 4:9  Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.Ecc 4:10  For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But w...

Ecc 4:7  Again, I saw vanity under the sun:Ecc 4:8  one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and...

Ecc 4:5  The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.Ecc 4:6  Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving af...

Ecc 4:4  Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecc 4:1  Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was pow...

Ecc 3:21  Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?Ecc 3:22 ...

Ecc 3:18  I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.

Ecc 3:17  I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.

Ecc 3:16  Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Ecc 3:15  That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

Ecc 5:17  Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud—frustrated, discouraged, and angry.