The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Godsgirl83]

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to
the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 1:14 (NIV)

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 1:15 (NIV)

What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 1:16 (ESV)

I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 1:17 (ESV)

And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 1:18 (ESV)

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 2:1 (NIV)

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.”
But that also proved to be meaningless.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 2:2 (NIV)

“Laughter,” I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 2:3 (NIV)

I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 2:4 (ASV)

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 2:5 (ASV)

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 2:6 (ASV)

I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 2:7 (ASV)

I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house;
also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 2:8 (ASV)

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 2:9 (ASV)

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 2:10 (ASV)

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 2:11(ASV)

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 a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 2:12 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
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.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 2:13 (NRSV)

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 2:14 (NRSV)

The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.