Ecclesiasteschapter 1
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Chapter summary
'Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.' Hevel (vapor, breath), is the verdict tested through the whole book.
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Chapter summary
'Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.' Hevel (vapor, breath), is the verdict tested through the whole book.
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'Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.' Hevel (vapor, breath), is the verdict tested through the whole book. Generations come and go while the earth abides; sun, wind, and rivers run their weary circuits; 'there is no new thing under the sun.' The Preacher, king in Jerusalem, gives his heart to search out by wisdom all that is done: 'a sore travail'; in much wisdom is much grief, 'and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.'
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.
Context
Poetry · Solomon — Ecclesiastes overview
- A. 1–11 Vanity of Vanities: the Sun Rises, the Rivers Run
- B. 12–18 I Gave My Heart to Seek Out Wisdom — and Found Grief
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Ecclesiastes 28 verses
- Ecclesiastes 2:3I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
- Ecclesiastes 2:9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Ecclesiastes 34 verses
- Ecclesiastes 3:9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
- Ecclesiastes 3:10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
- Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
- Ecclesiastes 3:15That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
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Ecclesiastes 122 verses
- Ecclesiastes 12:8Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 12:12And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
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Ecclesiastes 12 verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
- Ecclesiastes 1:12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
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Ecclesiastes 72 verses
- Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
- Ecclesiastes 7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
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Ecclesiastes 52 verses
- Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 5:16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
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Ecclesiastes 62 verses
- Ecclesiastes 6:10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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1 Kings 42 verses
- 1 Kings 4:1So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
- 1 Kings 4:30And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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