Ecclesiastes Bible Verses | Meaning, Themes & Scriptures

ECCLESIASTES 5:15

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. ...

ECCLESIASTES 5:16

And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? ...

ECCLESIASTES 5:17

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. ...

# Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion. ...

ECCLESIASTES 5:19

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this [is] the gift of God. ...

ECCLESIASTES 5:20

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart. ...

ECCLESIASTES 6:1

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men: ...

ECCLESIASTES 6:2

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease. ...

ECCLESIASTES 6:3

# If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he. ...