Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 9

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Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, no planning, no knowledge, no wisdom in Sheol where you are going. The Time of Misfortune Is Not Known.

Again I saw under the sun that the race is not won by the swift, nor the battle by the valiant, nor a livelihood by the wise, nor riches by the shrewd, nor favor by the experts; for a time of misfortune comes to all alike.

Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life, for the toil of your labors under the sun.

Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favors your works.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one bungler destroys much good.

The quiet words of the wise are better heeded than the shout of a ruler of fools.

For the living know that they are to die, but the dead no longer know anything. There is no further recompense for them, because all memory of them is lost.