The most popular Bible verses from Ecclesiastes - Page 6

Found 222 Verses (from 51)

Ecclesiastes 8:15

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So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun. NIV

Then I commended enjoyment, because a man has no better thing under the sun [without God] than to eat and to drink and to be joyful, for that will remain with him in his toil through the days of his life which God gives him under the sun. AMP

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. KJV

Ecclesiastes 4:13

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Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning. NIV

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive counsel (friendly reproof and warning)-- AMP

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. KJV

Ecclesiastes 4:1

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Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed – and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors – and they have no comforter. NIV

THEN I returned and considered all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun: And I beheld the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they [too] had no comforter. AMP

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. KJV

Ecclesiastes 10:14

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And fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming – who can tell them what will happen after them? NIV

A fool also multiplies words, though no man can tell what will be--and what will happen after he is gone, who can tell him? AMP

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? KJV

Ecclesiastes 3:15

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Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. NIV

That which is now already has been, and that which is to be already has been; and God seeks that which has passed by [so that history repeats itself]. AMP

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. KJV

Ecclesiastes 10:16

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Woe to the land whose king was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning. NIV

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child or a servant and when your officials feast in the morning! AMP

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! KJV

Ecclesiastes 12:10

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The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true. NIV

The Preacher sought acceptable words, even to write down rightly words of truth or correct sentiment. AMP

The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. KJV

Ecclesiastes 9:15

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Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man. NIV

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no man [seriously] remembered that poor man. AMP

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. KJV

Ecclesiastes 3:17

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I said to myself, "God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed." NIV

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time [appointed] for every matter and purpose and for every work. AMP

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. KJV

Ecclesiastes 8:12

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Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. NIV

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his days [seemingly] are prolonged [in his wickedness], yet surely I know that it will be well with those who [reverently] fear God, who revere and worship Him, realizing His continual presence. [Ps. 37:11, 18, 19; Isa. 3:10, 11; Matt. 25:34.] AMP

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: KJV