Ecclesiastes 7:27
(7:29) Beholde, sayth the Preacher, this haue I found, seeking one by one to finde the count:
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- Eccl 1:1-2 : 1 The wordes of the Preacher, the sonne of Dauid King in Ierusalem. 2 Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
- Eccl 12:8-9 : 8 Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie. 9 And the more wise the Preacher was, the more he taught the people knowledge, and caused them to heare, and searched foorth, and prepared many parables. 10 The Preacher sought to finde out pleasant wordes, and an vpright writing, euen the wordes of trueth.
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- Eccl 7:28-292 verses88%
28 (7:30) And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde.
29 (7:31) Onely loe, this haue I founde, that God hath made man righteous: but they haue sought many inuentions.
- Eccl 7:23-264 verses81%
23 (7:2) All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.
24 (7:26) It is farre off, what may it be? And it is a profound deepenesse, who can finde it?
25 (7:27) I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,
26 (7:28) And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Eccl 1:12-176 verses75%
12 I the Preacher haue bene King ouer Israel in Ierusalem:
13 And I haue giuen mine heart to search and finde out wisdome by all things that are done vnder the heauen: (this sore trauaile hath GOD giuen to the sonnes of men, to humble them thereby)
14 I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
15 That which is crooked, can none make straight: and that which faileth, cannot be nombred.
16 I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge.
17 And I gaue mine heart to knowe wisdome and knowledge, madnes and foolishnes: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.
- Eccl 8:16-172 verses75%
16 When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,
17 Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.
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6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
- Eccl 12:8-103 verses71%
8 Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.
9 And the more wise the Preacher was, the more he taught the people knowledge, and caused them to heare, and searched foorth, and prepared many parables.
10 The Preacher sought to finde out pleasant wordes, and an vpright writing, euen the wordes of trueth.
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10 And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: & this was my portion of all my trauaile.
11 Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.
12 And I turned to beholde wisedome, and madnes and follie: (for who is the man that will come after the King in things, which men nowe haue done?)
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13 (7:15) Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?
14 (7:16) In the day of wealth be of good comfort, and in the day of affliction consider: God also hath made this contrary to that, to the intent that man shoulde finde nothing after him.
15 (7:17) I haue seene all things in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice, and there is a wicked man that continueth long in his malice.
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10 All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.
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7 Againe I returned, and sawe vanitie vnder the sunne.
8 There is one alone, & there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.
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35 For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shal obteine fauour of the Lord.
- Eccl 1:1-33 verses70%
1 The wordes of the Preacher, the sonne of Dauid King in Ierusalem.
2 Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
3 What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?
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1 There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:
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15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
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13 I haue also seene this wisedome vnder the sunne, and it is great vnto me.
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27 Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.
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10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
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1 I haue surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them.
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17 Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
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11 (7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?
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20 Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne.
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10 Who shall finde a vertuous woman? for her price is farre aboue the pearles.
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22 He that findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and receiueth fauour of the Lord.
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9 All this haue I seene, and haue giuen mine heart to euery worke, which is wrought vnder the sunne, and I sawe a time that man ruleth ouer man to his owne hurt.
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3 I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.
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3 And I count him better then them both, which hath not yet bin: for he hath not seene the euill workes which are wrought vnder the sunne.
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10 I haue seene the trauaile that God hath giuen to ye sonnes of men to humble them thereby.
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12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
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31 But if he be founde, he shall restore seuen folde, or he shall giue all the substance of his house.