Ecclesiastes Bible Verses | Meaning, Themes & Scriptures

ECCLESIASTES 2:7

I got [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: ...

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical instruments, and that of all sorts. ...

ECCLESIASTES 2:9

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

ECCLESIASTES 2:10

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

ECCLESIASTES 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun. ...

ECCLESIASTES 2:12

# 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. ...

ECCLESIASTES 2:13

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. ...

ECCLESIASTES 2:14

The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. ...

ECCLESIASTES 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity. ...

ECCLESIASTES 2:16

For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool. ...