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Ecclesiastes 9 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:1 - I saw that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, though all are before their face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3 - There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that they go to the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - For who is he that has fellowship with all the living? there is hope of him: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:5 - For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:6 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yea, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:7 - Go, eat thy bread with mirth, and drink thy wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted thy works.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:8 - Let thy garments be always white; and let not oil be wanting on thine head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9 - And see life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which are given thee under the sun: for that is thy portion in thy life, and in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10 - Whatsoever thine hand shall find to do, do with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades whither thou goest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - For surely man also knows not his time: as fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as birds that are caught in a snare; even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:13 - This I also saw to be wisdom under the sun, and it is great before me:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:14 - suppose there were a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:15 - and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:16 - And I said, Wisdom is better than power: yet the wisdom of the poor man is set at nought, and his words not listened to.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:17 - The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of them that rule in folly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:18 - Wisdom is better than weapons of war: and one sinner will destroy much good.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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Ecclesiastes Chapter 9 — Additional Translations:

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