Beliebte Verse in Ecclesiastes 9

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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.