Noah Webster Bible

Proverbs 31

Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher

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Chapter 1

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  The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.  

 

 

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  Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.  

 

 

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  What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?  

 

 

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  One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.  

 

 

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  The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.  

 

 

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  The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits.  

 

 

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  All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.  

 

 

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  All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.  

 

 

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  The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.  

 

 

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  Is there any thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.  

 

 

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  There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.  

 

 

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  I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.  

 

 

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  And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this grievous labor hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised with it.  

 

 

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  I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.  

 

 

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  That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.  

 

 

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  I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to great estate, and have gained more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: and my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.  

 

 

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  And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.  

 

 

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  For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.  

 

 

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Ecclesiastes 2

 

 

 

 

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