Chapter 12:9-14 (ESV) - Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. The Preacher sought to find words of…
Chapter 12:1-8 (ESV) - Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before…
Chapter 11 (ESV) - Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen…
Chapter 10:8-20 (ESV) - He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.He who quarries stones is hurt by them, and he who splits…
Chapter 10:1-7 (ESV) - Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but…
Chapter 9:11-18 (ESV) - Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with…
Chapter 9:1-10 (ESV) - But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are…
Chapter 8:10-17 (ESV) - Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity. Because the…
Chapter 8:1-9 (ESV) - Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing?A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
I say:…
Chapter 7:21-29 (ESV) - Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.
All this I…
Chapter 7:15-20 (ESV) - In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. Be not…
Chapter 7:7-14 (ESV) - Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in…
Chapter 7:1-6 (ESV) - A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the…
Chapter 6 (ESV) - There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he…
Chapter 5:10-20 (ESV) - He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and…
Chapter 5:8-9 (ESV) - If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher,…
Chapter 5:1-7 (ESV) - Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not…
Chapter 4:7-16 (ESV) - Again, I saw vanity under the sun: one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that…
Chapter 4:1-6 (ESV) - 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…
Chapter 3:14-22 (ESV) - I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. That which is,…
Chapter 3:1-13 (ESV) - For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;a time…
Chapter 2:18-26 (ESV) - I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will…
Chapter 2:12-17 (ESV) - So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done. Then I saw that there is more gain…
Chapter 2:1-11 (ESV) - I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and…
Chapter 1:12-18 (ESV) - I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that…
Chapter 1:3-11 (ESV) - What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.The sun…
Chapter 1:1-2 (ESV) - The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
Question to consider: Which…
