Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+006   Ecclesiastes 6 (ESV) 7 All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. 8 For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+005   Ecclesiastes 5 (ESV) 18 Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. 19 Everyone also to whom God has given wealth […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+004   Ecclesiastes 4 (ESV) 7 Again, I saw vanity under the sun: 8 one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+003   Ecclesiastes 3 (ESV) 1 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; … 9 What gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen the business that God […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+002   Ecclesiastes 2 (ESV) 4 I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. 6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my […]