1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. Compare verse3 commentaries
2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath. Compare verse2 commentaries
3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. Compare verse1 commentary
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Compare verse2 commentaries
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Compare verse2 commentaries
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. Compare verse1 commentary
7 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works. Compare verse2 commentaries
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you take under the sun. Compare verse2 commentaries
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go. Compare verse4 commentaries
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all. Compare verse2 commentaries
12 For man also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them. Compare verse3 commentaries
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: Compare verse1 commentary
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Compare verse1 commentary
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. Compare verse2 commentaries
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools. Compare verse1 commentary
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroys much good. Compare verse1 commentary