Ecclesiastes 11-12 Cast Your Bread upon the Waters 11 Cast your bread upon the waters,    for you will find it after many days.2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight,    for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.3 If the clouds are full of rain,    they empty themselves on the earth,and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,    in the …

Ecclesiastes 9-10 Death Comes to All 9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 2 It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the …

Ecclesiastes 7-8 The Contrast of Wisdom and Folly 7 A good name is better than precious ointment,    and the day of death than the day of birth.2 It is better to go to the house of mourning    than to go to the house of feasting,for this is the end of all mankind,    and the living will lay it to heart.3 Sorrow is better than laughter,    for by sadness of …

Ecclesiastes 5-6 Fear God 5  Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2  Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and …

Ecclesiastes 3-4 A Time for Everything 3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up;4 a time to weep, …

Ecclesiastes 1-2 All Is Vanity 1 The words of the Preacher,[a] the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity[b] of vanities, says the Preacher,    vanity of vanities! All is vanity.3 What does man gain by all the toil    at which he toils under the sun?4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,    but the earth remains forever.5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down,    and hastens[c] to the place where it rises.6 The wind blows to the …

Job 39-40 39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?    Do you observe the calving of the does?2 Can you number the months that they fulfill,    and do you know the time when they give birth,3 when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,    and are delivered of their young?4 Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;    they go out and do not return to them. 5 “Who …

Job 39-40 39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?    Do you observe the calving of the does?2 Can you number the months that they fulfill,    and do you know the time when they give birth,3 when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,    and are delivered of their young?4 Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;    they go out and do not return to them. 5 “Who …

Job 37-38 Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty 37 “At this also my heart trembles    and leaps out of its place.2 Keep listening to the thunder of his voice    and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go,    and his lightning to the corners of the earth.4 After it his voice roars;    he thunders with his majestic voice,    and he does not restrain the lightnings[a] when his voice …

Job 35-36 Elihu Condemns Job 35 And Elihu answered and said: 2 “Do you think this to be just?    Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’3 that you ask, ‘What advantage have I?    How am I better off than if I had sinned?’4 I will answer you    and your friends with you.5 Look at the heavens, and see;    and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.6 If you have sinned, what …