| 1 | The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. | Ec 1:12 Ec 7:27 Ec 12:8-10 Ne 6:7 Ps 40:9 Isa 61:1 Jon 3:2 2Pe 2:5 |
| 2 | Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. | Ec 2:11 Ec 2:15 Ec 2:17 Ec 2:19 Ec 2:21 Ec 2:23 Ec 2:26 Ec 3:19 Ec 4:4 Ec 4:8 Ec 4:16 Ec 5:10 Ec 6:11 Ec 11:8 Ec 11:10 Ec 12:8 Ps 39:5 Ps 39:6 Ps 62:9 Ps 62:10 Ps 144:4 Ro 8:20 |
| 3 | What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun? | Ec 2:22 Ec 3:9 Ec 5:16 Pr 23:4 Pr 23:5 Isa 55:2 Hab 2:13 Hab 2:18 Mt 16:26 Mk 8:36 Mk 8:37 Jn 6:27 |
| 4 | One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever. | Ec 6:12 Gn 5:3-31 Gn 11:20-32 Gn 36:9-19 Gn 47:9 Ex 1:6 Ex 1:7 Ex 6:16-27 Ps 89:47 Ps 89:48 Ps 90:9 Ps 90:10 Zc 1:5 |
| 5 | The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth. | Gn 8:22 Ps 19:4-6 Ps 89:36 Ps 89:37 Ps 104:19-23 Jer 33:20 |
| 6 | The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind returneth again to its circuits. | Jb 37:9 Jb 37:17 Ps 107:25 Ps 107:29 Jon 1:4 Mt 7:24 Mt 7:27 Jn 3:8 Ac 27:13-15 |
| 7 | All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again. | Jb 38:10 Jb 38:11 Ps 104:6-9 |
| 8 | All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. | Ec 2:11 Ec 2:26 Mt 11:28 Ro 8:22 Ro 8:23 |
| 9 | That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. | Ec 3:15 Ec 7:10 2Pe 2:1 |
| 10 | Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us. | Mt 5:12 Mt 23:30-32 Lk 17:26-30 Ac 7:51 1Th 2:14-16 2Ti 3:8 |
| 11 | There is no remembrance of the former [generations]; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter [generations] that are to come, among those that shall come after. | Ec 2:16 Ps 9:6 Isa 41:22-26 Isa 42:9 |
| 12 | I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. | Ec 1:1 1Ki 4:1-19 |
| 13 | And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. | Ec 1:17 Ec 7:25 Ec 8:9 Ec 8:16 Ec 8:17 Ps 111:2 Pr 2:2-4 Pr 4:7 Pr 18:1 Pr 18:15 Pr 23:26 1Ti 4:15 |
| 14 | I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. | Ec 1:17 Ec 1:18 Ec 2:11 Ec 2:17 Ec 2:26 1Ki 4:30-32 Ps 39:5 Ps 39:6 |
| 15 | That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. | Ec 3:14 Ec 7:12 Ec 7:13 Jb 11:6 Jb 34:29 Isa 40:4 Lam 3:37 Dn 4:35 Mt 6:27 |
| 16 | I communed with mine own hear, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. | 2Ki 5:20 Ps 4:4 Ps 77:6 Isa 10:7-14 Jer 22:14 Ezk 38:10 Ezk 38:11 Dn 4:30 |
| 17 | And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind. | Ec 1:13 Ec 2:3 Ec 2:12 Ec 7:23-25 1Th 5:21 |
| 18 | For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. | Ec 2:15 Ec 7:16 Ec 12:12 Ec 12:13 Jb 28:28 1Co 3:18-20 Jm 3:13-17 |
