The book of Ecclesiastes/Qoheleth - Notes

Ecclesiastes 1:1

¹The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.(KJV)

Ecclesiastes 2

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Ecclesiastes 3

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Ecclesiastes 4

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Ecclesiastes 5

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Ecclesiastes 6

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Ecclesiastes 7

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Ecclesiastes 8:8

"⁸There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it." (KJV)

Ecclesiastes 8:12

"¹²Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:" (KJV)

Ecclesiastes 8:15

"¹⁵Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (KJV)

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

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." (KJV)

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." (KJV)

Ecclesiastes 9:13-18

¹³ "This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:" (KJV)

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:" (KJV)

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." (KJV)

¹⁶ "Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard." (KJV)

¹⁷ "The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools." (KJV)

¹⁸ "Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good." (KJV)

Ecclesiastes 10

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Ecclesiastes 11

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Ecclesiastes 12:13

¹³ 'Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.' (KJV)