Ecclesiastes 7:27
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
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- Eccl 1:1-2 : 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Eccl 12:8-9 : 8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity. 9 And moreover, bause the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. 10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
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- Eccl 7:28-292 verses88%
28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Eccl 7:23-264 verses81%
23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Eccl 1:12-176 verses75%
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
- Eccl 8:16-172 verses75%
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: bause though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
- Prov 7:6-83 verses72%
6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
- Eccl 12:8-103 verses71%
8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
9 And moreover, bause the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
- Eccl 2:10-123 verses71%
10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
- Eccl 7:13-153 verses71%
13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
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10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
- Eccl 4:7-82 verses70%
7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8 There is one alone, and there is not a sond; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
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35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
- Eccl 1:1-33 verses70%
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
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15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
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13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
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27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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1 For all this I considered in my heart even to dlare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
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17 Therefore I hated life; bause the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
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10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her ice is far above rubies.
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22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
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9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
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3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
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3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
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12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
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31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.