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Ecclesiastes Chapter 6

Ecclesiastes
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Ecclesiastes

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In this chapter the author reflects on the futility of human plans and the brevity of life, urging a focus on the present moment. He describes how the day is filled with toil and sorrow, and that the heart is heavy with the weight of endless labor. The message is that there is no lasting value in striving for success, and that true peace comes from accepting the ordinary rhythm of existence.

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(1) There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 5:13

(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.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 5:19I Kings 3:13I Chronicles 29:25I Chronicles 29:28II Chronicles 1:11Daniel 5:18Ecclesiastes 2:4Ecclesiastes 2:5Ecclesiastes 2:6Ecclesiastes 2:7Ecclesiastes 2:8Ecclesiastes 2:9

Related verses (shared words)

Romans 14:6Romans 14:3Isaiah 40:17Luke 10:19John 8:54Deuteronomy 8:18

(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.
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Genesis 33:5I Samuel 2:20I Samuel 2:21II Kings 10:1I Chronicles 28:5II Chronicles 11:21Esther 5:11Psalms 127:4Psalms 127:5Proverbs 17:6Ecclesiastes 5:17Ecclesiastes 5:18

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Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20

(4) For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
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Psalms 109:13

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Job 10:22Matthew 6:23I John 2:11Job 23:17Exodus 10:21Deuteronomy 4:11

(5) Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
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Job 3:10Job 3:11Job 3:12Job 3:13Job 14:1Psalms 58:8Psalms 90:7Psalms 90:8Psalms 90:9

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Isaiah 30:26

(6) Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
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Genesis 5:5Genesis 5:23Genesis 5:24Isaiah 65:22Ecclesiastes 6:3Job 7:7Psalms 4:6Psalms 4:7Psalms 34:12Isaiah 65:20Jeremiah 17:6Ecclesiastes 3:20

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Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(7) All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Genesis 3:17Genesis 3:18Genesis 3:19Proverbs 16:26Matthew 6:25John 6:27I Timothy 6:6I Timothy 6:7I Timothy 6:8Ecclesiastes 6:3Ecclesiastes 5:10Luke 12:19

(8) For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
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Ecclesiastes 2:14Ecclesiastes 2:15Ecclesiastes 2:16Ecclesiastes 5:11Genesis 17:1Psalms 101:2Psalms 116:9Proverbs 19:1Luke 1:6I Timothy 6:17

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Ecclesiastes 2:16Ecclesiastes 2:19I Kings 3:26Ecclesiastes 9:15I Corinthians 3:18

(9) Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24Ecclesiastes 3:12Ecclesiastes 3:13Ecclesiastes 5:18Job 31:7Proverbs 30:15Proverbs 30:16Jeremiah 2:20Ecclesiastes 6:2Ecclesiastes 1:2Ecclesiastes 1:14Ecclesiastes 2:11

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Ecclesiastes 1:2

(10) That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9Ecclesiastes 1:10Ecclesiastes 1:11Ecclesiastes 3:15Genesis 3:9Genesis 3:17Genesis 3:18Genesis 3:19Job 14:1Job 14:2Job 14:3Job 14:4

(11) Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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Ecclesiastes 1:6Ecclesiastes 1:7Ecclesiastes 1:8Ecclesiastes 1:9Ecclesiastes 1:17Ecclesiastes 1:18Ecclesiastes 2:3Ecclesiastes 2:4Ecclesiastes 2:5Ecclesiastes 2:6Ecclesiastes 2:7Ecclesiastes 2:8

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Ecclesiastes 1:2

(12) For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 2:3Ecclesiastes 12:13Psalms 4:6Psalms 16:5Psalms 17:15Psalms 47:4Lamentations 3:24Lamentations 3:25Lamentations 3:26Lamentations 3:27Micah 6:8Ecclesiastes 8:13

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Isaiah 38:8Psalms 39:6

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