true wisdom is modest,1 Kings are to be respected,2-5 Divine providence is to be observed,6-11 It is better with the godly in adversity, than with the wicked in prosperity,12-15 The work of God is unsearchable,16-17

as the 2:13,14 1Co 2:13-16

who knoweth Ge 40:8 41:15,16,38,39 Job 33:23 Pr 1:6 Da 2:28-30,47 4:18,19 2Pe 1:20

a man's Ex 34:29,30 Pr 4:8,9 17:24 24:5 Mt 17:2 Ac 6:15

and the De 28:50 Ac 4:13,29 Eph 6:19

boldness 2Ti 4:17

2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

i counsel Pr 24:21 Ro 13:1-4 Tit 3:1 1Pe 2:13-17

in regard 1Ki 2:43 1Ch 29:24 Eze 17:13-20 Ro 13:5

3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

not hasty 10:4 Pr 14:29

stand 1Ki 1:50-52 2:21-24 Isa 48:4 Jer 44:16,17 Ac 5:8,9

for Pr 16:14,15 30:31 Da 4:35 5:19

4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

the word 1Ki 2:25,29-34,46 Pr 19:12 20:2 30:31 Da 3:15 Lu 12:4,5 Ro 13:1-4

what Job 33:12,13 34:18,19 Ro 9:20

5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

keepeth 5:2 Ex 1:17,20,21 Ps 119:6 Ho 5:11 Lu 20:25 Ac 4:19 5:29 Ro 13:5-7 1Pe 3:13,14

feel 2:14 10:2 1Ch 12:32 Pr 17:24 Lu 12:56,57 1Co 2:14,15 Php 1:9,10 Col 1:9 Heb 5:14

6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

to every 3:1,11,17 7:13,14

therefore 11:9,10 12:1 Isa 3:11-14 22:12-14 Lu 13:25 17:26-30 19:42-44 Heb 3:7-11

7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

he knoweth 6:12 9:12 10:14 Pr 24:22 29:1 Mt 24:44,50 25:6-13 1Th 5:1-3

when

8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

is no 3:21 2Sa 14:14 Job 14:5 34:14 Ps 49:6-9 89:48 Heb 9:27

power 1Co 15:43 2Co 13:4

discharge De 20:1-8 2Ki 7:15

neither Ps 9:17 52:5-7 73:18 Pr 14:32 Isa 28:15,18

9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

this 1:14 3:10 4:7,8 7:25

there is 5:8,13 Ex 14:5-9,28 De 2:30 2Ki 14:10-12 25:7

10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

so 2Ki 9:34,35 Job 21:18,32,33 Lu 16:22

the place Ps 122:1-5 Ac 6:13

they were 2:16 9:5 Ps 31:12 Pr 10:7 Jer 17:13 Heb 10:38

11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

sentence Ex 8:15,32 Job 21:11-15 Ps 10:6 50:21,22 Isa 5:18,19 26:10 Jer 48:11 Mt 24:49,50 Ro 2:4,5 2Pe 3:3-10

fully Jer 42:15

12 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:

a sinner 5:16 7:15 1Ki 2:5-9 21:25 22:34,35 Pr 13:21 Isa 65:20 Ro 2:5 Ro 9:22 2Pe 2:9

surely 7:18 Ps 37:11,18,19 112:1 115:13 Pr 1:32,33 Isa 3:10,11 65:13,14,20-24 Mt 25:34,41-46 Lu 1:50

fear before 3:14 1Ch 16:30 Ps 96:9

13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

it shall Job 18:5 20:5 21:30 Ps 11:5 Isa 57:21 Mal 3:18 Mt 13:49,50 Joh 5:29

neither Ps 55:23 Isa 30:13 2Pe 2:3

as a 6:12 Job 7:6,7 14:2 Ps 39:5 144:4 Jas 4:14

14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

a vanity 4:4,8 9:3 10:5

there shall be just 2:14 7:15 9:1-3 Job 9:22-24 21:17 24:21-25 Ps 73:13,14 Mal 3:15

15 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.

then 2:24 3:12,13,22 5:18 9:7-9 1Ti 4:3,4 6:17

16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

when I 8:7 7:25

there is that 2:23 4:8 5:12 Ge 31:40 Ps 127:2

17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

that a man 3:11 7:23,24 11:5 Job 5:9 11:7-9 Ps 40:5 73:16 104:24 Pr 30:3,4 Isa 40:28 Ro 11:33