JPS Tanakh 1917Old Testament
Ecclesiastes
12 chapters
chapters
- 1The words of the Koheleth, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
- 2I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy…
- 3To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the…
- 4But I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under…
- 5(4-17) Guard thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be ready…
- 6There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon…
- 7A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death than the…
- 8Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A…
- 9For all this I laid to my heart, even to make clear all this: that the…
- 10Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a…
- 11Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.
- 12Remember then thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days…