TOPICAL BIBLE
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Ecclesiastes 1:13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!Ecclesiastes 1:15A crooked thing one is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.Ecclesiastes 1:16I—I spake with my heart, saying, ‘I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.Ecclesiastes 1:17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;Ecclesiastes 1:18for, in abundance of wisdom is abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.’Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, ‘Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;’ and lo, even it is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:2Of laughter I said, ‘Foolish!’ and of mirth, ‘What is this it is doing?’Ecclesiastes 2:3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where is this—the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.Ecclesiastes 2:4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.Ecclesiastes 2:5I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.Ecclesiastes 2:6I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.Ecclesiastes 2:7I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance—herd and flock—above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man—a wife and wives.Ecclesiastes 2:9And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,Ecclesiastes 2:11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!Ecclesiastes 2:12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already—they have done it!Ecclesiastes 12:9And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out—he made right many similes.Ecclesiastes 12:10The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth.Ecclesiastes 12:11Words of the wise are as goads, and as fences planted by the masters of collections, they have been given by one shepherd.Ecclesiastes 12:12And further, from these, my son, be warned; the making of many books hath no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.Ecclesiastes 12:13The end of the whole matter let us hear:—‘Fear God, and keep His commands, for this is the whole of man.Ecclesiastes 12:14For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.’
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