Ecclesiastes 12:9
The same preacher was not wyse alone, but taught the people knowlege also: he gaue good hede, sought out the groude and set forth many parables.
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- 1 Kgs 4:32 : 32 And he spake thre thousande prouerbes, & his songes were a thousande & fyue.
- Prov 1:1 : 1 These are the prouerbes of Salomon the sonne of Dauid kynge of Israel:
- Prov 10:1 : 1 These are prouerbes of Salomon. A wyse sonne maketh a glad father, but an vndiscrete sonne is the heuynesse of his mother.
- Prov 25:1 : 1 These also are Salomons prouerbes, which the men of Ezechias kinge of Iuda gathered together.
- 1 Kgs 8:12-21 : 12 Then sayde Salomon: The LORDE sayde, that he wolde dwell in a darke cloude. 13 I haue buylded an house, to be an habitacion vnto the: a seate, yt thou mayest dwell there for euer. 14 And ye kynge turned his face, & blessed all the congregacion of Israel. And all the cogregacion of Israel stode, 15 & he sayde: Praysed be the LORDE God of Israel, which promised by his mouth vnto my father Dauid, and by his hade hath fulfylled it, and sayde: 16 Sence the daye yt I broughte my people of Israel out of Egipte, haue I chosen no cite amoge all the trybes of Israel, to buylde me an house, that my name might be there. But Dauid haue I chosen, to be ouer my people of Israel. 17 And in dede my father Dauid was mynded to buylde an house vnto the name of the LORDE God of Israel: 18 neuertheles the LORDE sayde vnto my father Dauid: Where as thou wast mynded to buylde an house vnto my name, thou hast done well, that thou art so aduysed. 19 Howbeit thou shalt not buylde the house, but thy sonne which shal come out of thy loynes, he shal buylde an house vnto my name. 20 And the LORDE hath perfourmed his worde that he spake: For I am come vp in my father Dauids steade, and syt vpon the seate of Israel, as the LORDE sayde: and haue buylded an house vnto the name of the LORDE God of Israel: 21 and there haue I ordeyned a place for the Arke, wherin is the LORDES couenaunt, which he made with oure fathers, whan he broughte them out of ye londe of Egipte.
- 1 Kgs 10:8 : 8 Happye are thy people and thy seruauntes, that allwaie stonde before the, and heare thy wy?dome.
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- Eccl 12:10-123 verses82%
10 His diligence was to fynde out acceptable wordes, right scripture, and the wordes of trueth.
11 For the wordes of ye wyse are like prickes and nales that go thorow, wherwith men are kepte together: for they are geuen of one shepherde onely.
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.
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8 All is but vanite (sayeth the preacher) all is but playne vanite.
- Eccl 1:12-132 verses73%
12 I myself ye Preacher, beynge kynge of Israel & Ierusale,
13 applyed 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.
- Eccl 1:16-183 verses73%
16 I 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,
17 for 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:
18 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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9 Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.
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25 I 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.
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13 This wi?dome haue I sene also vnder ye Sone, & me thought it a greate thinge.
- Eccl 8:16-172 verses71%
16 When 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)
17 I 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.
- Eccl 1:1-22 verses71%
1 These are the wordes of the Preacher, the sonne of Dauid, kynge of Ierusalem.
2 All is but vanite (saieth ye preacher) all is but playne vanite.
- Prov 1:5-62 verses71%
5 By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,
6 he shal be more apte to vnderstonde a parable, and the interpretacion therof: the wordes of the wyse, and the darcke speaches of the same.
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27 Beholde (sayeth ye preacher) this haue I diligently searched out & proued, yt I might come by knowlege: which as yet I seke, and fynde it not.
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12 I wysdome haue my dwellynge wt knowlege, and prudent councell is myne owne.
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2 to lerne wy?dome nurtoure, vnderstondinge, prudence,
- Eccl 9:15-173 verses70%
15 And in the cite there was founde a poore man (but he was wyse) which wt his wy?dome delyuered the cite: yet was there no body, yt had eny respecte vnto soch a symple man.
16 Then sayde I: wy?dome is better then strength. Neuertheles, a symple mans wy?dome is despysed, & his wordes are not herde.
17 A wise mans councell that is folowed in sylence, is farre aboue the crienge of a captaine amoge fooles.
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26 he 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.
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15 A wyse herte laboureth for knowlege, and a prudent eare seketh vnderstondinge.
- Eccl 2:11-166 verses70%
11 But whan I considered all the workes yt my handes had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therin: lo, all was but vanite and vexacion of mynde, & nothinge of eny value vnder ye Sonne.
12 Then turned I me to considre wy?dome, erroure and foolishnesse (for what is he amonge men, that might be compared to me ye kynge in soch workes?)
13 and I sawe, that wy?dome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.
14 For 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.
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.
16 For 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.
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21 for 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.
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9 (Shortly) I was greater & in more worshipe, then all my predecessours in Ierusale. For wy?dome remayned with me:
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1 For all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seke out. The righteus and wyse yee and their workes also are in the hande of God: and there is no man that knoweth ether the loue or hate of the thinge that he hath before him.
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19 for 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?
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23 The herte of the wyse enfourmeth his mouth, and amendeth ye doctryne in his lyppes.
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27 Then dyd he se her, the declared he her, prepared her and knewe her.
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3 So I thought in my herte, to withdrawe my flesh from wyne, to applye my mynde vnto wy?dome, and to comprehede foolishnes vntill the tyme that (amonge all ye thinges which are vnder ye Sonne) I might se what were best for men to do, so longe as they lyue vnder heauen.
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11 Wy?dome is better then riches, yee moch more worth then the eye sight.
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19 Wy?dome geueth more corage vnto the wyse, then ten mightie men of the citie:
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23 He that hath vnderstodinge, can hyde his wysdome: but an vndiscrete herte telleth out his foolishnesse.
- Eccl 6:8-92 verses67%
8 For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge?
9 The sight of the eyes is better, then that the soule shulde so departe awaye. Howbeit this is also a vayne thinge and a disquietnesse of mynde.
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4 The herte of ye wyse is in the mournynge house, but the hert of the foolish is in the house of myrth.
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9 They are all playne to soch as wil vnderstode, & right to the that fynde knowlege.
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23 And all the kynges of ye earth desired (to se) Salomons face, and to heare his wysdome, which God had geuen him in his hert.
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12 Amonge olde personnes there is wy?dome, and amonge the aged is vnderstodinge.
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12 How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge?
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24 And all the worlde desyred to se Salomon, that they mighte heare the wy?dome which God gaue him in his hert.