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Ecclesiastes Chapter 1

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ECCLESIASTES

Ecclesiastes 1

1The wordes of the Preacher, the sonne of Dauid King in Ierusalem.
Ecclesiastes 12:8, Ecclesiastes 12:10, Ecclesiastes 12:8, Ecclesiastes 12:10, Ecclesiastes 1:12
2Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
Psalms 144:4, Psalms 144:4, Romans 8:20, Romans 8:20, Psalms 39:5
3What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?
Ecclesiastes 3:9, Ecclesiastes 3:9, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:22, Ecclesiastes 5:16
4One generation passeth, and another generation succeedeth: but the earth remaineth for euer.
Psalms 104:5, Psalms 104:5, Zechariah 1:5, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Zechariah 1:5
5The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.
Psalms 19:4, Psalms 19:6, Psalms 42:1, Habakkuk 3:11, Psalms 19:4
6The winde goeth toward the South, and compasseth towarde the North: the winde goeth rounde about, and returneth by his circuites.
John 3:8, John 3:8, Ecclesiastes 11:5, Ecclesiastes 11:5, Job 37:9
7All the riuers goe into the sea, yet the sea is not full: for the riuers goe vnto ye place, whence they returne, and goe.
Job 38:10, Job 38:11, Job 38:10, Job 38:11, Psalms 104:6
8All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
Proverbs 27:20, Proverbs 27:20, Matthew 11:28, Matthew 11:28, Ecclesiastes 4:8
9What is it that hath bene? that that shalbe: and what is it that hath bene done? that which shalbe done: and there is no newe thing vnder the sunne.
Ecclesiastes 3:15, Ecclesiastes 3:15, Ecclesiastes 6:10, Ecclesiastes 6:10, Ecclesiastes 2:12
10Is there any thing, whereof one may say, Beholde this, it is newe? it hath bene already in the olde time that was before vs.
Acts 7:51, Acts 7:51, Matthew 23:30, Matthew 23:32, Luke 17:26
11There is no memorie of the former, neither shall there be a remembrance of the latter that shalbe, with them that shall come after.
Ecclesiastes 2:16, Psalms 9:6, Ecclesiastes 2:16, Psalms 9:6, Ecclesiastes 9:5
12I the Preacher haue bene King ouer Israel in Ierusalem:
Ecclesiastes 1:1, Ecclesiastes 1:1, 1 Kings 4:1, 1 Kings 4:19, 1 Kings 4:1
13And I haue giuen mine heart to search and finde out wisdome by all things that are done vnder the heauen: (this sore trauaile hath GOD giuen to the sonnes of men, to humble them thereby)
Ecclesiastes 3:10, Ecclesiastes 3:10, Genesis 3:19, Genesis 3:19, Ecclesiastes 1:17
14I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Ecclesiastes 2:17
15That which is crooked, can none make straight: and that which faileth, cannot be nombred.
Ecclesiastes 7:12, Ecclesiastes 7:13, Ecclesiastes 7:12, Ecclesiastes 7:13, Isaiah 40:4
16I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 2:9, Ecclesiastes 2:9, 1 Kings 4:30, 1 Kings 4:30, 1 Kings 10:7
17And I gaue mine heart to knowe wisdome and knowledge, madnes and foolishnes: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:3, Ecclesiastes 2:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Ecclesiastes 2:10
18For in the multitude of wisedome is much griefe: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorowe.
Job 28:28, Ecclesiastes 12:12, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Job 28:28, Ecclesiastes 12:12

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