Category Archives: Kohelet (Ecc)

1 The words of Kohelet the son of David, king in Yerushalayim: 2 Pointless! Pointless! — says Kohelet — Utterly meaningless! Nothing matters! 3 What does a person gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? 4 Generations come, generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises, the […]

1 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test myself with pleasure and enjoying good things”; but this too was pointless. 2 Of laughter I said, “This is stupid,” and of pleasure, “What’s the use of it?” 3 I searched my mind for how to gratify my body with wine and, with my mind […]

1 For everything there is a season, a right time for every intention under heaven — 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to […]

1 But I turned away and thought about all the kinds of oppression being done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them. The power was on the side of their oppressors, and they had no one to comfort them. 2 So I considered the […]

1 Don’t speak impulsively — don’t be in a hurry to give voice to your words before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; so let your words be few. 2 For nightmares come from worrying too much; and a fool, when he speaks, chatters too much. 3 If you make […]

1 I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on people: 2 the case in which God gives someone riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing that he wants; but God does not give him the power to enjoy them, and some stranger gets to enjoy them — this […]

1 A good name is better than perfumed oil, and the day of death better than the day of birth. 2 Better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for all are destined to be mourned; the living should lay this to heart. 3 Grief is better […]

1 Who can be compared with a wise person? Who else knows what a thing means? Wisdom lights up the face and softens a grim appearance. 2 Keep the king’s command because of the oath before God. 3 Don’t be quick to leave his presence, and don’t persist in doing what is wrong, for he […]

1 I applied myself to all of this, sifted through it and concluded that the righteous and the wise, along with their deeds, are in God’s hands — a person cannot know whether these people and deeds will be rewarded with love or with hatred; all options are open. 2 Anything can happen to anyone; […]

1 Just as dead flies make perfumed oil stink, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2 A wise man’s heart leads him rightly, but a fool’s heart leads him astray; 3 and when a fool travels, he has no good sense, thus showing everyone that he is a fool. 4 If a ruler […]