The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 3:9 (ESV)

What gain has the worker from his toil?

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 3:10 (ESV)

I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NASB)

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart,
yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 3:12 (NASB)

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime;

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 3:13 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the gift of God.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 3:14 (NKJV)
I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 3:15 (CSB)

Whatever is, has already been, and whatever will be, already is. However, God seeks justice for the persecuted

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 3:16 (CSB)

I also observed under the sun:
there is wickedness at the place of judgment and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 3:17 (CSB)

I said to myself, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked,
since there is a time for every activity and every work.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 3:18 (CSB)

I said to myself, “This happens so that God may test the children of Adam
and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 3:19 (NKJV)
For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 3:20 (NKJV)
All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 3:21 (NKJV)

Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 3:22 (NKJV)

So I perceived that nothing is better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 4:1 (NASB)

Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 4:2 (NASB)

So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 4:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 Yet, better than both is he who has never existed,
Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 4:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Vanity of Selfish Toil
4 Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 4:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
5 The fool folds his hands
And consumes his own flesh.

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 4:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 Better a handful with quietness
Than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind.