Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 9

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Work thou busily, whatever thing thine hand may do; for neither work, neither reason, nor knowing, nor wisdom, shall be at hells [or with hell], whither thou hastest.

I turned me to another thing, and I saw under [the] sun, that running [or course] is not of swift men, neither battle is of strong men, neither bread is of wise men, neither riches be of teachers, nor grace is of craftsmen; but time and hap is in all things.

Use thou life with the wife which thou lovest, in all the days of the life of thine unstableness, that be given to thee under the sun, in all the time of thy vanity; for this is thy part in thy life and [thy] travail, by which thou travailest under the sun.

Therefore go thou, just man , and eat thy bread in gladness, and drink thy wine with joy; for thy works please God.

Better is wisdom than armours [or arms] of battle; and he that sinneth in one thing, shall lose many goods.

The words of wise men be heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools.

For they that live know that they shall die; but dead men know nothing more, neither have meed further; for their mind is given to forgetting.