Ecclesiastes 12:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The preacher was yet more wyse, and taught the people knowledge, he gaue good heede, sought out the ground, and set foorth many parables:

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  • 1 Kgs 4:32 : 32 And Solomon spake three thousande prouerbes: And his songes were a thousande and fiue.
  • Prov 1:1 : 1 The prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, kyng of Israel:
  • Prov 10:1 : 1 A wyse sonne maketh a glad father: but an vndiscrete sonne is an heauinesse vnto his mother.
  • Prov 25:1 : 1 These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezekia king of Iuda copied out.
  • 1 Kgs 8:12-21 : 12 Then spake Solomon: The Lorde saide that he would dwell in the darke cloude. 13 I haue built thee an house to dwell in, an habitation for thee to abyde in for euer. 14 And the king turned his face, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stoode still. 15 And he saide: Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel, which spake with his mouth vnto Dauid my father, & hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying: 16 Sence the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no citie of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein: But I haue chosen Dauid to be ruler ouer my people of Israel. 17 And it was in the heart of Dauid my father to build an house for the name of the Lorde God of Israel: 18 And the Lorde saide vnto Dauid my father: Whereas it was in thyne heart to build an house vnto my name, thou diddest well that thou wast so minded: 19 Neuerthelesse, thou shalt not build the house: but thy sonne that shall come out of thy loynes, he shall build the house vnto my name. 20 And the Lorde hath made good his word that he spake, and I am rysen vp in the roome of Dauid my father, and sit on the seate of Israel, as the Lorde promysed, and haue built an house for the name of the Lorde God of Israel: 21 And I haue prepared therein a place for the arke, wherein is the couenaunt of the Lorde which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the lande of Egypt.
  • 1 Kgs 10:8 : 8 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy seruauntes whiche stand euer before thee, and heare thy wysdome.

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  • Eccl 12:10-12
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    10His diligence was to finde out acceptable wordes, right scripture, & the wordes of trueth.

    11For the wordes of the wyse are like prickes and nayles that go thorowe, of the auctoures of gatheringes which are geuen of one shephearde.

    12Therefore beware my sonne of that doctrine that is beside this: for to make many bookes, it is an endlesse worke, and to muche studie weerieth the body.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8All is but vanitie (saith the preacher) all is but playne vanitie.

  • Eccl 1:12-13
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    12I my selfe the preacher was kyng of Israel at Hierusalem,

    13And dyd applie my mynde to seke out & searche for knowledge of all thynges that are done vnder heauen: Such trauayle and labour hath God geuen vnto the children of men, to exercise them selues therin.

  • Eccl 1:16-18
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    16I communed with myne owne heart, saying: lo I am come to great estate, and haue gotten more wisdome then all they that haue ben before me in Hierusalem.

    17Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdome & knowledge: for thervnto I applied my mynde, that I myght knowe what were wisdome and vnderstandyng, what were errour and foolishnesse: and I perceaued that this was also but a vexation of mynde.

    18For where much wisdome is, there is also great trauayle and disquietnesse: and the more knowledge a man hath, the more is his care.

  • Prov 9:9
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    9Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I applied my minde also vnto knowledge, and to seeke and searche out science, wysdome, and vnderstanding, to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the errour of doting fooles.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13This wysdome haue I seene also vnder the sunne, and me thought it a great thing:

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16And so I applied my minde to learne wysdome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde, and that of suche a fashion, that I suffred not mine eyes to sleepe neither day nor night.

    17I vnderstoode of all the workes of God, but it is not possible for a man to attayne vnto the workes that are done vnder the sunne: and though he bestowe his labour to seeke them out, yet can he not reach vnto them: yea though a wyse man would vndertake to know them, yet shall he not finde them.

  • Eccl 1:1-2
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    1The wordes of the preacher ye sonne of Dauid kyng of Hierusalem.

    2All is but most vayne vanitie saith the preacher, & all is most vayne I say and but playne vanitie.

  • Prov 1:5-6
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    5The wise man wyll geue eare, and wyll come by more wisdome, and he that is endued with vnderstanding shal attayne vnto wise counsayles.

    6To vnderstande a parable, and the interpretation therof, the wordes of the wise, and their darke speaches.

  • Eccl 7:27
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    27Beholde (saith the preacher) this haue I diligently searched out and proued: One thing must be considered with another, that a man may come by knowledge,

  • Prov 8:12
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    12I wysdome dwell with counsell, and finde out knowledge and vnderstanding.

  • Prov 1:2
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    2To learne wisdome and instruction, & to perceaue the wordes of vnderstandyng,

  • Eccl 9:15-17
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    15And in the citie there was founde a poore man, but he was wyse, whiche with his wysdome deliuered the citie, yet was there no body that had any respect to such a simple man.

    16Then sayd I, wysdome is better then strength: Neuerthelesse, a simple mans wysdome is despised, and his wordes are not hearde.

    17A wyse mans counsayle that is folowed in scilence, is farre aboue the crying of a captaine among fooles.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26And why? God geueth to the man that is good before hym, wisdome, vnderstandyng, and gladnesse: but vnto the sinner he geueth weerinesse, that he may gather and heape together the thyng that afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto hym whom it pleaseth God: This is nowe a vayne thyng, yea a very disquietnesse and vexation of mynde.

  • Prov 18:15
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    15A wise heart possesseth knowledge, & a prudent eare seeketh vnderstanding.

  • Eccl 2:11-16
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    11But when I considered all the workes that my handes had wrought, and all the labour that I had taken therin: lo all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde, and nothing of any value vnder the sunne.

    12Then turned I me to consider wisdome, errour, and foolishnesse (for what is he among men that myght be compared to me the kyng in such workes?)

    13And I sawe that wisdome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.

    14For a wise man hath his eyes in his head, but the foole goeth in darknesse: I perceaued also that they both had one ende.

    15Then thought I in my mynde, yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what needeth me then to labour any more for wisdome? So I confessed within my heart that this also was but vanitie.

    16For the wise are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolishe: for the dayes shall come when all shalbe forgotten: yea the wise man dyeth as well as the foole.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21Forsomuch as a man shoulde weery hym selfe with wisdome, with vnderstandyng and oportunitie, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another that neuer sweat for them: This is also a vayne thyng, and great miserie.

  • Eccl 2:9
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    9And I was greater and in more worship then all my predecessours in Hierusalem: For wisdome remayned with me.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seeke out: The righteous & wise, yea & their seruauntes also are in the hand of God, and there is no man that knoweth eyther loue or hate, but all thinges are before them.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19And who knoweth whether he shalbe a wise man or a foole? And yet shall he be lorde of all my laboures which I with such wisdome haue taken vnder the sunne: This is also a vayne thyng.

  • Prov 16:23
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    23A wyse heart ordereth his mouth wisely, and ministreth learnyng vnto his lippes.

  • Job 28:27
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    27Then dyd he see her, then declared he her, prepared her, and knewe her.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    3So I thought in my heart to geue my fleshe vnto wine, and agayne to apply my mynde vnto wisdome, and to comprehende foolishnesse: vntyll the tyme that among all the thynges which are vnder the sunne, I myght see what were best for men to do so long as they liue vnder heauen.

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11Wysdome with inheritaunce is good, yet better is it with them that without care may beholde the sunne:

  • Eccl 7:19
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    19Wysdome geueth more courage vnto the wyse, then ten mightie men of the citie.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23A discrete man doth hyde knowledge: but the heart of fooles blabbeth out foolishnesse.

  • Eccl 6:8-9
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    8For what hath the wise more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore that he knoweth to walke with fooles before the lyuyng?

    9The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde.

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    4The heart of the wise is in the mourning house: but the heart of the foolishe is in the house of myrth.

  • Prov 8:9
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    9They are all playne to suche as wyll vnderstande, and right to them that finde knowledge.

  • 2 Chr 9:23
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    23And all the kinges of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to heare his wysedome that God had put in his heart.

  • Job 12:12
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    12Among olde persons there is wysedome, and in age is vnderstanding.

  • Job 28:12
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    12Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

  • 1 Kgs 10:24
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    24And all the worlde resorted to Solomon, to heare his wysdome which God had put in his heart: