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 9
Tanakh 18 verses
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For all this I laid to my , even to make clear all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of ; whether it be or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.
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Deuteronomy 33:3 Ecclesiastes 8:14 Job 12:10 John 10:27-30 Ecclesiastes 12:9-10 1 Samuel 2:9 Psalm 10:14 Ecclesiastes 7:25 Psalm 31:5 Proverbs 16:3 Job 5:8 Psalm 37:5-6 Isaiah 49:1-4 Ecclesiastes 1:17 Malachi 3:15-18 Ecclesiastes 10:14 1 Corinthians 3:5-15 Ecclesiastes 7:15 1 Peter 1:5 Jeremiah 1:18-19 Psalm 73:3 Ecclesiastes 8:16 Isaiah 26:12 2 Timothy 1:12 2 Samuel 15:25-26 Psalm 73:11-13 - 2 All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner, and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
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This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; yea also, the of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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For to him that is joined to all the living there is ; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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- 5 For the living that they shall die; but the dead not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
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As well their , as their hatred and their envy, is long ago perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
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Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry ; For hath already accepted thy works.
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Ecclesiastes 8:15 Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 Ecclesiastes 5:18 Deuteronomy 12:12 Acts 10:35 1 Chronicles 16:1-3 Deuteronomy 12:7 1 Chronicles 29:21-23 Nehemiah 8:10-12 Luke 11:41 1 Kings 8:66 Mark 7:29 Ecclesiastes 10:19 Exodus 24:8-11 2 Chronicles 30:23-27 Deuteronomy 16:14-15 Genesis 4:4-5 John 4:50 Genesis 12:19 - 8 Let thy garments be always white; And let thy head lack no oil.
- 9 Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which He hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.
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Whatsoever thy hand attaineth to do by thy strength, that do; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
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Colossians 3:23 Romans 12:11 Psalm 6:5 Ephesians 5:16 Job 14:7-12 1 Corinthians 16:10 1 Chronicles 28:20 Nehemiah 13:8-31 Nehemiah 4:6 2 Peter 1:12-15 1 Corinthians 15:10 Nehemiah 2:12 Psalm 88:10-12 Acts 20:25-31 Psalm 71:15-18 Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 Ezra 6:14-15 Numbers 13:30 Nehemiah 4:17-23 Romans 15:18-20 Nehemiah 4:2 2 Chronicles 31:20-21 John 9:4 Ecclesiastes 11:6 Matthew 6:33 John 4:34 1 Corinthians 9:24 1 Chronicles 22:19 1 Corinthians 9:26 Isaiah 38:18-19 Nehemiah 4:9-13 Jeremiah 29:13 Ecclesiastes 11:3 1 Chronicles 29:2-3 -
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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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Jeremiah 9:23 Proverbs 21:30-31 Amos 2:14-16 Lamentations 3:37-38 2 Samuel 17:23 Ephesians 1:11 Psalm 147:10-11 Ecclesiastes 2:12 Psalm 33:16-17 Ecclesiastes 2:14-15 Ecclesiastes 4:4 Job 5:11-14 Ecclesiastes 3:17 2 Chronicles 20:15 Psalm 73:6-7 Ecclesiastes 4:1 Ecclesiastes 7:13 Jeremiah 46:6 Daniel 4:35 Ecclesiastes 3:14 Deuteronomy 8:18 Malachi 3:18 Job 34:29 2 Samuel 17:14 1 Samuel 17:50 2 Samuel 2:18-23 1 Samuel 2:3-10 -
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For man also knoweth not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
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there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it;
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now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
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- 16 Then said I: ‘Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.’
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The words of the wise spoken in quiet Are more acceptable than the cry of a ruler among fools.
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- 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; But one sinner destroyeth much good.