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Ecclesiastes · read by David Guzik
12 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
Ecclesiastes 4
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For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!Read from NKJV · (2 Samuel) the Grateful Retrospect
Ecclesiastes 5
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Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.Read from NKJV · Broken Vows
2
Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.Read from NKJV · Broken Vows
4
When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.Read from NKJV · Broken Vows
6
Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?Read from NKJV · Broken Vows
Ecclesiastes 9
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So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God's hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.Read from NKJV · How Could God Allow This?
2
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.Read from NKJV · How Could God Allow This?
3
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.Read from NKJV · How Could God Allow This?
4
There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.Read from NKJV · How Could God Allow This?
5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.Read from ESV · How Could God Allow This?
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Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.Read from NKJV · How Could God Allow This?