The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
the preacher
Ecclesiastes 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 7:27 Behold, this have I found, said the preacher, counting one by one, …
Ecclesiastes 12:8-10 Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity…
Nehemiah 6:7 And you have also appointed prophets to preach of you at Jerusalem, …
Psalm 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have …
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed …
Jonah 3:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching …
2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a …
king
Ecclesiastes 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 11:42,43 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was …
2 Chronicles 9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
2 Chronicles 10:17-19 But as for the children of Israel that dwelled in the cities of Judah, …
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:11,15,17,19,21,23,26 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the …
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing …
Ecclesiastes 4:4,8,16 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …
Ecclesiastes 5:10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that …
Ecclesiastes 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes 11:8,10 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him …
Ecclesiastes 12:8 Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.
Psalm 39:5,6 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as …
Psalm 62:9,10 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a …
Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by …
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, …
Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?
Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall …
Proverbs 23:4,5 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom…
Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor …
Habakkuk 2:13,18 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor …
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and …
Mark 8:36,37 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, …
John 6:27 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures …
under
Ecclesiastes 2:11,19 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the …
Ecclesiastes 4:3,7 Yes, better is he than both they, which has not yet been, who has …
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat …
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of …
Ecclesiastes 7:11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to …
Ecclesiastes 8:15-17 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the …
Ecclesiastes 9:3,6,13 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that …
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
one generation
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of …
Genesis 5:3-31 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his …
Genesis 11:20-32 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug…
Genesis 36:9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage …
Exodus 1:6,7 And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation…
Exodus 6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; …
Psalm 89:47,48 Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain…
Psalm 90:9,10 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years …
Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
but
Psalm 102:24-28 I said, O my God, take me not away in the middle of my days: your …
Psalm 104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Psalm 119:90,91 Your faithfulness is to all generations: you have established the …
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
2 Peter 3:10-13 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the …
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
sun
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, …
Psalm 19:4-6 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to …
Psalm 89:36,37 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me…
Psalm 104:19-23 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going down…
Jeremiah 33:20 Thus said the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and …
hasteth
Joshua 10:13,14 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had …
Psalm 42:1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of …
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
the wind this verse should be connected with the preceding, and rendered, 'the sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose; going toward the south, and turning about unto the north. The wind whirleth about continually,' It alludes, in the front part to the apparent daily motion of the sun from east to west, and his annual course through the signs of the zodiac
Job 3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Acts 27:13-15 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained …
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
full
Ecclesiastes 2:11,26 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the …
Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Romans 8:22,23 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together …
man
Ecclesiastes 4:1-4 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under …
Ecclesiastes 7:24-26 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out…
the eye
Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yes, he has neither …
Ecclesiastes 5:10,11 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that …
Psalm 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth …
Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 30:15,16 The horse leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are …
Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: …
Revelation 7:16,17 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall …
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
i gave
Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: …
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, …
Ecclesiastes 8:9,16,17 All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is …
Psalm 111:2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have …
Proverbs 2:2-4 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding…
Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all …
Proverbs 18:1,15 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles …
Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
1 Timothy 4:15 Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your …
this sore
Ecclesiastes 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God has given to the sons of men to …
Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …
Ecclesiastes 12:12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books …
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to …
to be exercised or to afflict them
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
communed
2 Kings 5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my …
Psalm 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart on your bed, …
Psalm 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own …
Isaiah 10:7-14 However, he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it …
Jeremiah 22:14 That said, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts …
Ezekiel 38:10,11 Thus said the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same …
Daniel 4:30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …
lo
Ecclesiastes 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in …
1 Kings 3:12,13 Behold, I have done according to your words: see, I have given you …
1 Kings 4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the …
1 Kings 10:7,23,24 However, I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had …
2 Chronicles 1:10-12 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before …
2 Chronicles 2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made …
2 Chronicles 9:22,23 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom…
great experience of
Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age…
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
