These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ecclesiastes 6
Tanakh 12 verses
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:
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a man to whom giveth riches, wealth, and , so that he wanteth nothing for his of all that he desireth, yet giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
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Ecclesiastes 5:19 Psalm 17:14 Psalm 73:7 1 Kings 3:13 Luke 12:19-20 Job 21:9-15 Ecclesiastes 4:8 Ecclesiastes 5:16 Psalm 39:6 Ecclesiastes 4:4 2 Chronicles 1:11 1 Chronicles 29:28 Deuteronomy 8:7-10 Lamentations 5:2 Hosea 7:9 Deuteronomy 28:43 Ecclesiastes 2:4-10 Daniel 5:18 Deuteronomy 28:33 Judges 18:10 1 Chronicles 29:25 -
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If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his have not enough of good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he;
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Ecclesiastes 4:3 Job 3:16 Jeremiah 22:19 2 Kings 9:35 Isaiah 14:19-20 Genesis 47:9 Matthew 26:24 Esther 5:11 2 Chronicles 11:21 Psalm 58:8 Esther 9:14-15 Genesis 33:5 1 Samuel 2:20-21 Ecclesiastes 5:17-19 2 Kings 10:1 Proverbs 17:6 Jeremiah 36:30 1 Chronicles 28:5 Jeremiah 8:2 Esther 7:10 Psalm 127:4-5 -
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for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the thereof is covered with darkness;
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moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath gratification rather than the other;
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- 6 yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and enjoy no good; do not all go to one place?
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All the labour of man is for his mouth, And yet the appetite is not filled.
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For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or the poor man that hath understanding, in walking before the living?
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- 9 Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
- 10 Whatsoever cometh into being, the thereof was given long ago, and it is foreknown what man is; neither can he contend with Him that is mightier than he.
- 11 Seeing there are many words that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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For who knoweth what is good for man in his 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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Job 14:2 Lamentations 3:24-27 James 4:14 Ecclesiastes 3:22 Psalm 39:5-6 Ecclesiastes 8:7 Psalm 144:4 Ecclesiastes 8:13 Job 8:9 Micah 6:8 Psalm 102:11 1 Chronicles 29:15 Psalm 89:47 Ecclesiastes 9:6 Ecclesiastes 12:13 Psalm 47:4 Psalm 90:10-12 Psalm 109:23 Job 14:21 Psalm 4:6 Psalm 17:15 Ecclesiastes 2:3 Psalm 16:5