Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 9

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Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.

Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools.

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.