What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again.
(Ecclesiastes 1:9)
To increase knowledge only increases distress.
(Proverbs 1:18, Living Bible)
There is a time for everything.
(Ecclesiastes 3:1)
The basic motive for success is the driving force of envy and jealousy.
(Ecclesiastes 4:4, Living Bible)
Pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up.
(Ecclesiastes 4:10)
Don’t say any more than you have to.
(Ecclesiastes 5:2)
God has no pleasure in fools.
(Ecclesiastes 5:4)
Dreaming instead of doing is foolishness.
(Ecclesiastes 5:7, Living Bible)
The profit of the earth is for all.
(Ecclesiastes 5:9)
The day you die is better than the day you were born.
(Ecclesiastes 7:1)
The end of something is better than the beginning.
(Ecclesiastes 7:8)
Don’t long for the “good old days,” for you don’t know whether they were any better than these.
(Ecclesiastes 7:10, Living Bible)
Don’t fight the facts of nature.
(Ecclesiastes 7:13, Living Bible)
Be not morbidly exacting and externally righteous overmuch, neither strive to make yourself pretentiously appear otherwise.
(Ecclesiastes 7:16)
Tackle every task that comes along and if you fear God you can expect his blessing.
(Ecclesiastes 7:18, Living Bible)
There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.
(Ecclesiastes 7:20)
God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.
(Ecclesiastes 7:29)
Because God does not punish sinners instantly, people feel it is safe to do wrong.
(Ecclesiastes 8:11, Living Bible)
All things come to all alike.
(Ecclesiastes 9:2)
Everyone who is alive in the world of the living has some hope.
(Ecclesiastes 9:4)
Give generously, for your gifts will return later.
(Ecclesiastes 11:1, Living Bible)
It is wonderful to be alive!
(Ecclesiastes 11:7, Living Bible)
Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
(Ecclesiastes 12:13)