-
Ecclesiastes 2
- 1 I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold, this also [is] vanity.
- 2 I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
- 3 I sought in my heart, to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
- 4 I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
- 5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:
- 6 I made me pools of water, to water with them the wood that bringeth forth trees:
- 7 I procured [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
- 8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and of the provinces: I procured me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts.
- 9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
- 10 And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.
- 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.
- 12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.
- 13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
- 14 The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
- 15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.
- 16 For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.
- 17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous to me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
- 18 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.
- 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.
- 20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.
- 21 For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not labored in it, shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.
- 22 For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?
- 23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
- 24 [There is] nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.
- 25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten [to it] more than I?
- 26 For [God] giveth to a man who [is] good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth toil, to gather, and to amass, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
-
-
King James Version (kjv)
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Basque
- Breton
- Chamorro
- Cherokee
- Chinese
- Coptic
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
-
English
American King James Version (akjv) American Standard Version (asv) Basic English Bible (basicenglish) Douay Rheims (douayrheims) John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395) (wycliffe) King James Version (kjv) King James Version (1769) with Strongs Numbers and Morphology and CatchWords, including Apocrypha (without glosses) (kjva) Webster's Bible (wb) Weymouth NT (weymouth) William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530) (tyndale) World English Bible (web) Young's Literal Translation (ylt)
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Gothic
- Greek
- Greek Modern
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malayalam
- Manx Gaelic
- Maori
- Myanmar Burmse
- Norwegian bokmal
- Portuguese
- Potawatomi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Scottish Gaelic
- Slavonic Elizabeth
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Syriac
- Tagalog
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Uma
- Vietnamese
-
-
Active Persistent Session:
To use a different persistent session key, simply add it above, and click the button below.
Please Keep Your Favourite Verse Private
Your persistent session key and favourite verse provide you exclusive access to edit your . Think of your persistent session key as a username and your favourite verse as a password. Therefore, ensure your favourite verse is kept private.
The persistent session key allows viewing, while editing is only possible when the correct favourite verse is provided.
-
Loading...
-
-
Webster's Bible (wb - 1.2)
2003-05-08English (en)
THE HOLY BIBLE,
CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,
IN THE COMMON VERSION.
WITH AMENDMENTS OF THE LANGUAGE,
BY NOAH WEBSTER, LL. D.
-------------
NEW HAVEN:
PUBLISHED BY DURRIE & PECK.
Sold by HEZEKIAH HOWE & CO., and A. H. MALTBY, New Haven;
and by N.&J. WHITE, New York.
------
1833
Webster Bible Electronic Format.
PUBLIC DOMAIN
February 1992
Beginning in July of 1991 the task of placing the Webster Bible text in electronic format began. The original purpose was to provide Larry Pierce, who produces the On-Line Bible program, with a more modern *public domain* text, similar in content and style to the AV but with a grammar that would provide better comprehension in todays English.
I plan on maintaining an accurate copy of the Webster text. Anyone finding an error should contact me; Anyone desiring to obtain the latest, most correct text, can find it on the Bible Foundation BBS, or can contact me in the following methods:
Internet This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Home phone 602-829-8542
Address Mark Fuller
1129 East Loyola Drive
Tempe Arizona, 85282
Bible Foundation http://www.bf.org
I would like to thank the Bible Foundation not only for scanning nearly the entire Webster Bible but for encouraging me to undertake this monumental work; particularly around page 20 when I realized what I had gotten myself into. Special thanks to Jerry Kingery of the Bible Foundation for scanning, and Jerry Hastings for doing some preliminary scan cleaning and making the texts available on the BBS.- Direction: LTR
- LCSH: Bible. English.
- Distribution Abbreviation: wb
License
Public Domain
Source ()
http://www.bf.org/
- history_1.2
- compressed module
- history_1.1
- Fixed two small errors (noted in revision.txt)
Favourite Verse
You should select one of your favourite verses.
This verse in combination with your session key will be used to authenticate you in the future.
This is currently the active session key.
Should you have another session key from a previous session.
You can add it here to load your previous session.
Edit Tag
Create Tag
Ecclesiastes 2:1
Notes on this verse.The active verse selected text should load here.
