Ecclesiastes
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Ecclesiastes is a book of The Bible. It consists of 12 chapters. It was written by King Solomon. Place Written: Jerusalem Writing Completed: Before 1000 B.C.E.
Note: There are many different translations of the Bible, and most have some small differences between their texts.
[edit] Ecclesiastes 1:1,2, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
1 The words of the congregator, the son of David the king in Jerusalem. 2 “The greatest vanity!” the congregator has said, “the greatest vanity! Everything is vanity!”
[edit] Ecclesiastes 8:9, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
9 All this I have seen, and there was an applying of my heart to every work that has been done under the sun, [during] the time that man has dominated man to his injury.
[edit] Ecclesiastes 9:10, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
10 All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She´ol, the place to which you are going.
[edit] Ecclesiastes 9:11,12, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
11 I returned to see under the sun that the swift do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do the understanding ones also have the riches, nor do even those having knowledge have the favor; because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all. 12 For man also does not know his time. Just like fishes that are being taken in an evil net, and like birds that are being taken in a trap, so the sons of men themselves are being ensnared at a calamitous time, when it falls upon them suddenly.
[edit] Ecclesiastes 12:1, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
1 Remember, now, your Grand Creator in the days of your young manhood, before the calamitous days proceed to come, or the years have arrived when you will say: “I have no delight in them”;
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