Ecclesiastes 11:6

Sow your seed in the morning, and don’t hold back your hand in the evening, since you don’t know which is going to succeed, the one or the other, or if both are equally good.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All streams flow into the sea,Yet the sea is never full;To the place [from] which they flowThe streams flow back again.dflow back again According to popular belief, through tunnels; so Targum and Rashi.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I observed all the happenings beneath the sun, and I found that all is futile and pursuitfpursuit Lit. “tending,” from root rʻh, “to shepherd.” of wind:

Ecclesiastes 7:20

mApparently continuing the thought of v. 16. For there is not one good person on earth who does what is bestndoes what is best Refers back to 6.12. and doesn’t err.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The sum of the matter, when all is said and done: Revere God and observe the commandments! For this applies to all humankind:

Ecclesiastes 6:1

There is an evil I have observed under the sun, and a grave one it is for mortals:

Ecclesiastes 6:7

bCf. Prov. 16.26. All of a person’s earning is for [filling] the mouth, yet the gullet is not sated.

Ecclesiastes 1:16

I said to myself: “Here I have grown richer and wiser than any who ruled before me over Jerusalem, and my mind has zealously absorbed wisdom and learning.”

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is best that you grasp the one without letting go of the other, for those who fear God will do their dutykdo their duty Cf. postbiblical yaṣaʼ yede. by both.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I set my mind to study and to probe with wisdom all that happens under the sun.—An unhappy business, that, which God gave mortals to be concerned with!

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And so I loathed life. For I was distressed by all that goes on under the sun, because everything is futile and pursuit of wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:5

The sun rises, and the sun sets—And glidescglides So Targum; cf. Bereshith Rabbah on Gen. 1.17. back to where it rises.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Don’t let your spirit be quickly vexed, for vexation abides in the breasts of fools.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Often, much talk means much futility. How does it benefit a person?

Ecclesiastes 10:6

Folly was placed on lofty heights, while the rich sat in low estate.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time for slaying and a time for healing,bslaying…healing Emendation yields “wrecking…repairing”; cf. 1 Kings 18.30. A time for tearing down and a time for building up;

Ecclesiastes 8:16

For I have set my mind to learn wisdom and to observe the business that goes on in the world—even to the extent of going without sleep day and night—

Ecclesiastes 3:2

A time for birthing and a time for dying,A time for planting and a time for uprooting the planted;

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time for weeping and a time for laughing,A time for wailing and a time for dancing;

Ecclesiastes 5:19

For [such people] will not brood much over the days of their life,jthe days of their life The thought of which is depressing; see v. 16. because God keeps them busy enjoying themselves.

Ecclesiastes 2:4

I multiplied my possessions. I built myself houses and I planted vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 8:6

For there is a time for every experience, including the doom; for calamityhcalamity Still another term for death; cf. “the time of calamity” for “the hour of death,” 9.12. overwhelms.