like things happen to good and bad,1-3 there is a necessity of death unto men,4-6 Comfort is all their portion in this life,7-10 God's providence rules over all,11,12 wisdom is better than strength,13-18

considered in my heart 1:17 7:25 8:16 12:9,10

that the 8:14 De 33:3 1Sa 2:9 2Sa 15:25,26 Job 5:8 Ps 10:14 31:5 37:5,6 Pr 16:3 Isa 26:12 49:1-4 Jer 1:18,19 Joh 10:27-30 1Co 3:5-15 2Ti 1:12 1Pe 1:5

no man 7:15 Ps 73:3,11-13 Mal 3:15-18

2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

alike 2:14-16 Job 21:7 Ps 73:3 Mal 3:15

as is 2:26 7:18 8:12-14

feareth Ge 24:3,8,9 Jos 2:17-20 1Sa 14:26 Eze 17:18,19 Zec 5:3,4 Mal 3:15,18

3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

also 8:11 Ge 6:5 8:21 Job 15:16 Ps 51:5 Jer 17:9 Mt 15:19,20 Mr 7:21-23 Ro 1:29-31 Tit 3:3

and madness 1:17 7:25 Lu 6:11 15:17 Ac 26:11,24 2Pe 2:16

after 12:7 Pr 14:32 Ac 12:23

4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Job 14:7-12 27:8 Isa 38:18 La 3:21,22 Lu 16:26-29

5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

the living 7:2 Job 30:23 Heb 9:27

the dead Job 14:21 Ps 6:5 88:10,11 Isa 63:16

for the 2:16 8:10 Job 7:8-10 Ps 109:15 Isa 26:14

6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

their love Ex 1:8 Job 3:17,18 Ps 146:3,4 Pr 10:28 Mt 2:20

have they 2:18-23 6:12

7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

go Ge 12:19 Mr 7:29 Joh 4:50

eat 2:24-26 3:12,13 5:18 8:15 10:19 De 12:7,12 16:14,15 1Ki 8:66 1Ch 16:1-3 29:21-23 2Ch 30:23-27 Ne 8:10-12

for Ge 4:4,5 Ex 24:8-11 Lu 11:41 Ac 10:35

8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

thy garments 2Sa 19:24 Es 8:15 Re 3:4,5 7:9,13,14 16:15 19:8,14

let thy head Ru 3:3 2Sa 14:2 Da 10:3 Am 6:6 Mt 6:17 Lu 7:46

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

live joyfully with the wife Pr 5:18,19 18:22 19:14 Mal 2:15

all the days of his life 6:12 Ps 39:5 144:4

for 2:10,24 3:13,22 5:18

10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

thy hand Nu 13:30 1Ch 22:19 28:20 29:2,3 2Ch 31:20,21 Ezr 6:14,15 Ne 2:12-20 3:1 4:2,6,9-13,17-23 13:8-31 Ps 71:15-18 Jer 29:13 Mt 6:33 Joh 4:34 Ro 12:11 15:18-20 1Co 9:24,26 15:10 16:10 Eph 5:16 Col 3:23 2Pe 1:12-15

for 9:5,6 11:3 Job 14:7-12 Ps 6:5 88:10-12 Isa 38:18,19 Joh 9:4 Ac 20:25-31

11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

returned 2:12 4:1,4 Mal 3:18

that the race 1Sa 17:50 2Sa 2:18-23 17:14,23 Ps 33:16,17 73:6,7 147:10,11 Jer 9:23 46:6 Am 2:14-16

but 2:14,15 3:14-17 7:13 1Sa 2:3-10 Job 5:11-14 34:29 Pr 21:30,31 La 3:37,38 Da 4:35 Eph 1:11

12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

man 8:5-7,11 Lu 19:42-44 2Co 6:2 1Pe 2:12

as the fishes Pr 7:22,23 Hab 1:14-17 2Ti 2:26

the sons Job 18:8-10 Ps 11:6 73:18-20 Pr 6:15 29:6 Isa 30:13 Lu 12:20,39 17:26-31 21:34-36 1Th 5:3 2Pe 2:12

13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

9:13 6:1 7:15 8:16

14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

there was 2Sa 20:15-22 2Ki 6:24-33 7:1

15 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.

yet Ge 40:23 Es 6:2,3

16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

wisdom 9:18 7:19 Pr 21:22 24:5

the poor Pr 10:15 Mr 6:2,3 Joh 7:47-49 9:24-34 1Co 1:26-29 Jas 2:2-6

17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Ge 41:33-40 1Sa 7:3-6 Pr 28:23 Isa 42:2,4 Jas 1:20 3:17,18

18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

better 9:16

sinner Jos 7:1,5,11,12 22:20 1Sa 14:28,29,36-46 2Sa 20:1,2 2Th 2:8-12 2Ti 2:16-18 3:8 4:3,4 Tit 1:10,11 Heb 12:15,16