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Ecclesiastes 9 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Ecc 9:1

Ecc 9:1For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.

Ecc 9:2

Ecc 9:2All things come alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Ecc 9:3

Ecc 9:3This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, they have to go to the dead.

Ecc 9:4

Ecc 9:4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecc 9:5

Ecc 9:5For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecc 9:6

Ecc 9:6Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.

Ecc 9:7

Ecc 9:7Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

Ecc 9:8

Ecc 9:8Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.

Ecc 9:9

Ecc 9:9Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.

Whatever Your Hand Finds to Do

Ecc 9:10

Ecc 9:10Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

Ecc 9:11

Ecc 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecc 9:12

Ecc 9:12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Ecc 9:13

Ecc 9:13This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.

Ecc 9:14

Ecc 9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Ecc 9:15

Ecc 9:15and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.

Ecc 9:16

Ecc 9:16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Ecc 9:17

Ecc 9:17The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Ecc 9:18

Ecc 9:18Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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