Ecclesiastes 1:18

Coverdale Bible (1535)

for where moch wy?dome is, there is also greate trauayle & disquietnes: & ye more knowlege a man hath, the more is his care.

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  • Eccl 12:12-13 : 12 Therfore bewarre (my sonne) that aboue these thou make the not many & innumerable bokes, nor take dyuerse doctrynes in hande, to weery thy body withall. 13 Lat vs heare the conclucion of all thinges: Feare God, and kepe his comaundementes, for that toucheth all men:
  • 1 Cor 3:18-20 : 18 Let no ma disceaue himselfe. Yf eny man thinke himselfe wyse amoge you, let him become a foole in this worlde, that he maye be wyse. 19 For the wyssdome off this worlde is foolishnes with God. For it is wrytten: He compaseth the wyse in their craftynesse. 20 And agayne: The LORDE knoweth the thoughtes of the wyse, that they are vayne.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.
  • Eccl 2:15 : 15 Then thought I in my mynde: Yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what nedeth me then to laboure eny more for wy?dome? So I confessed within my harte, that this also was but vanite.
  • Eccl 2:23 : 23 but heuynesse, sorowe & disquyetnes all ye dayes of his life? In so moch that his herte can not rest in the night. Is not this also a vayne thinge?
  • Eccl 7:16 : 16 Therfore be thou nether to rightuous ner ouer wyse, yt thou perish not:
  • Jas 3:13-17 : 13 So can no fountayne geue bothe salt water and fresshe also. If eny man be wyse and endued with learnynge amonge you, let him shewe the workes of his good couersacion in meknes that is coupled with wissdome. 14 But yf ye haue bitter enuyenge and stryfe in yor hertes, reioyce not: nether be lyars agaynst the trueth. 15 This wissdome descendeth not from aboue: but is erthy, and naturall, and dyuelishe. 16 For where enuyenge and stryfe is, there is vnstablenes and all maner of euell workes. 17 But the wissdom that is fro aboue, is fyrst pure, the peasable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good frutes, without iudgynge, and without simulacion:

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  • Eccl 1:13-17
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    13applyed my mynde to seke out & search for the knowlege of all thiges yt are done vnder heaue. Soch trauayle & labor hath God geue vnto ye childre of me, to exercyse the selues theri.

    14Thus I haue considered all the thinges that come to passe vnder the Sone, & lo, they are all but vanite & vexacion of mynde.

    15The croked can not be mayde straight, & the fautes ca not be nobred.

    16I comoned wt myne owne herte, sayege: lo, I am come to a greate estate, and haue gotte more wy?dome, the all they yt haue bene before me in Ierusalem. Yee my hert had greate experiece of wy?dome & knowlege,

    17for there vnto I applyed my mynde: yt I might knowe what were wy?dome & vnderstodinge, what were error & foolishnes. And I perceaued yt this also was but a vexacion of mynde:

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I applied my mynde also vnto knowlege, and to seke out sciece, wisdome and vnderstondinge: to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the erroure of dotinge fooles.

  • Eccl 2:19-22
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    19for who knoweth, whether he shalbe a wyse ma or a foole? And yet shal he be lorde of all my labours, which I with soch wy?dome haue taken vnder the Sonne. Is not this a vayne thinge?

    20So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all soch trauayle, as I toke vnder the Sonne:

    21for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery.

    22For what getteth a ma of all ye labor & trauayle of his mynde, yt he taketh vnder the Sonne,

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26he geueth vnto ma, what it pleaseth him: whether it be wy?dome. vnderstondinge, or gladnesse. But vnto the synner he geueth weerynes and sorow, that he maye gather and heape together ye thinge, yt afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vayne thinge, yee a very disquietnesse and vexacio of mynde.

  • Eccl 7:3-4
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    3It is better to be sory then to laugh, for whe the countenaunce is heuy, the herte is ioyfull.

    4The herte of ye wyse is in the mournynge house, but the hert of the foolish is in the house of myrth.

  • Eccl 12:12
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    12Therfore bewarre (my sonne) that aboue these thou make the not many & innumerable bokes, nor take dyuerse doctrynes in hande, to weery thy body withall.

  • Prov 1:5-7
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    5By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,

    6he shal be more apte to vnderstonde a parable, and the interpretacion therof: the wordes of the wyse, and the darcke speaches of the same.

    7The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome. But fooles despyse wysdome and nurtoure.

  • Eccl 2:13-17
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    13and I sawe, that wy?dome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.

    14For a wyse man beareth his eyes aboute in his heade, but the foole goeth in the 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 nedeth me then to laboure eny more for wy?dome? So I confessed within my harte, that this also was but vanite.

    16For the wyse are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolish, and all the dayes for to come shalbe forgotten, yee the wyse man dyeth as well as ye foole.

    17Thus begane I to be weery of my life, in so moch that I coude awaye with nothinge that is done vnder the Sonne, for all was but vanite & vexacion of mynde:

  • Ps 73:16
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    16Then thought I to vnderstonde this, but it was to harde for me.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my mynde to lerne wy?dome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde (and that of soch a fashion, yt I suffred not myne eyes to slepe nether daye ner night)

    17I vnderstode of all ye workes of God, that it is not possible for a man, to attayne vnto ye workes that are done vnder ye Sonne: and though he bestowe his laboure to seke them out, yet can he not reach vnto the: yee though a wyse man wolde vndertake to knowe them, yet might he not fynde them.

  • Prov 24:4-5
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    4Thorow discrecion shal ye chabers be fylled wt all costly & pleasaunt riches.

    5A wyse ma is stroge, yee a ma of vnderstodinge is better, the he yt is mightie of stregth.

  • Prov 18:15
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    15A wyse herte laboureth for knowlege, and a prudent eare seketh vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 3:13
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    13Well is him that fyndeth wy?dome, & opteyneth vnderstondinge,

  • Eccl 9:18
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    18For wy?dome is better then harnesse: but one vnthrift alone destroyeth moch good.

  • Prov 2:10
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    10Yf wy?dome entre in to thine herte, and yi soule delyte in knowlege:

  • Prov 1:2
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    2to lerne wy?dome nurtoure, vnderstondinge, prudence,

  • Prov 14:18
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    18The ignoraut haue foolishnes in possessio, but the wyse are crowned with knowlege.

  • Prov 9:10
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    10The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome, & the knowlege of holy thinges is vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3Foolishnesse maketh a man to go out of his waye, & then is his herte vnpacient agaynst the LORDE.

  • Eccl 7:11-12
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    11Wy?dome is better then riches, yee moch more worth then the eye sight.

    12For wy?dome defendeth as well as moneye, and the excellent knowlege and wy?dome geueth life vnto him that hath it in possession.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13The herte is soroufull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heuynesse.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge?

  • Prov 16:22
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    22Vnderstondinge is a well of life vnto him yt hath it, as for ye chastenynge of fooles, it is but foolishnesse.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13This wi?dome haue I sene also vnder ye Sone, & me thought it a greate thinge.

  • Eccl 2:9
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    9(Shortly) I was greater & in more worshipe, then all my predecessours in Ierusale. For wy?dome remayned with me:

  • Eccl 7:23
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    23All these thinges haue I proued because of wy?dome: for I thought to be wyse, but she wente farther fro me

  • Prov 4:7
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    7The chefe poynte of wy?dome is, that thou be wyllynge to opteyne wy?dome, and before all thy goodes to get the vnderstondynge.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21A foole reioyseth in foolish thinges, but a wyse man loketh well to his owne goinges.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11A vayne thinge is it to cast out many wordes, but what hath a man els?

  • Job 28:12
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    12How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge?

  • Eccl 1:2
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    2All is but vanite (saieth ye preacher) all is but playne vanite.

  • Prov 2:6
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    6For it is the LORDE that geueth wy?dome, out of his mouth commeth knowlege and vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 14:6
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    6A scornefull body seketh wy?dome, & fyndeth it not: but knowlege is easy to come by, vnto him that wil vnderstonde.