Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionThen I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.New Living TranslationSo I set out to learn everything from wisdom to madness and folly. But...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:... Read verse in New International Version
Verse 16. - There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them. The paragraph plainly is carrying on the description of the popular enthusiasm for the new favorite. The Authorized Version completely obscures this meaning. It is better to translate, Numberless were ...
Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun... Read verse in New International Version
i?n. Scholars have proposed no less than ten interpretive options to resolve the enigma of this verse. (1) "He has also set the eternal work (creation in its widest sense) in the hearts of men."8 (2) "God has set perpetu- ity (consciousness of memory) in their heart."9 (3) ...
Verse 1. - This continues the subject treated above, confirming the conclusion arrived at in Ecclesiastes 8:17, viz. that God's government of the world is unfathomable. For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this; literally, for all this laid up in my heart, and ...
Verse 9. - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. The LXX. and the Vulgate render the first clauses of the two parts of the verse in both cases interrogatively, thus: "What is that which hath been? The very thing which shall be. And what is that which hath been ...