Ecclesiastes

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also vanity.

To every a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of oppressed, and th...

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for t...

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it common among men:

A good name better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

Who as the wise and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness...

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are i...

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: a little folly him that is in reputatio...