1For 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 knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 33:3John 10:27-301 Pet 1:5Eccl 7:15Eccl 8:14Job 12:10
2All 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 sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mal 3:18Eccl 2:14-16Job 9:22Mal 3:5Ps 73:3Mal 3:15Eccl 2:26Eccl 6:6Eccl 7:18Eccl 7:2
3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 17:9Eccl 8:11Eccl 1:17Job 15:16Ps 51:5Rom 1:29-31Titus 3:32 Pet 2:16Acts 12:23Acts 26:24
4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 14:7-12Isa 38:18Luke 16:26-29Lam 3:21-22Job 27:8
5For 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 26:14Eccl 1:11Ps 6:5Ps 88:10-12Heb 9:27Job 14:21Ps 109:15Eccl 2:16Eccl 8:10Isa 63:16
6Also 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 146:3-4Eccl 6:12Job 3:17-18Matt 2:20Eccl 2:18-23Exod 1:8Prov 10:28
7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 3:12-13Deut 12:7Eccl 10:19Eccl 8:15Eccl 2:24-26Neh 8:10-121 Chr 16:1-3Eccl 5:18Deut 16:14-151 Chr 29:21-23
8Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rev 19:14Rev 3:4-5Rev 19:8Rev 7:13-14Rev 16:15Rev 7:92 Sam 19:24Dan 10:3Esth 8:15Ps 23:5
9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 5:18-19Eccl 2:10Eccl 6:12Mal 2:15Eccl 3:13Eccl 2:24Eccl 3:22Eccl 5:18Eccl 7:15Prov 18:22
10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Col 3:23Eph 5:16Rom 12:11Ps 6:52 Chr 31:20-21Eccl 11:61 Cor 9:24Jer 29:13John 9:4Matt 6:33
11I 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 favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 9:23Prov 21:30-31Job 5:11-14Lam 3:37-38Eccl 3:17Amos 2:14-16Eccl 3:14Ps 147:10-11Eph 1:112 Chr 20:15
12For man also knoweth 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 falleth suddenly upon them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 5:3Luke 21:34-36Eccl 8:5-7Prov 29:6Prov 6:152 Cor 6:22 Tim 2:26Job 18:8-10Luke 12:20Prov 7:22-23
13This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 8:16Eccl 6:1Eccl 7:15Eccl 9:11
14There 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 6:24-7:202 Sam 20:15-22
15Now 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 4:13Gen 40:23Esth 6:2-32 Sam 20:22Eccl 2:16
16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 7:19Prov 24:5Prov 21:22Mark 6:2-31 Cor 1:26-29Jas 2:2-6Eccl 9:18John 7:47-49Prov 10:15John 9:24-34
17The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 3:17-18Prov 28:23Isa 42:2Jas 1:201 Sam 7:3-6Gen 41:33-40
18Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 7:1Josh 7:11-122 Tim 2:16-182 Tim 4:3-4Eccl 9:16Josh 7:52 Tim 3:8Titus 1:10-111 Sam 14:28-291 Sam 14:36-46