- Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. 1:2
- No one remembers what happened long ago, and no one will remember what happens now or in the future. 1:11
- With wisdom comes grief, and increasing knowledlge increases sorrow. 1:18
- the same fate (death) happens to the foolish and the wise. 2:14-16
- The best we can do is eat, drink, and enjoy the good in our labor. 2:24
- "To everything there is a season...." Some nice poetry and a great Byrds song. ("Turn, Turn, Turn" -- written by Pete
Seeger) 3:1-8
- Rejoice and do good in this life. 3:12
- Eat, drink, and enjoy the fruits of your labor. 3:13
- Someday God will show us that we are beasts. 3:18
- What happens to beasts happens to us. Our deaths are just like theirs. We are not above beasts. 3:19
- We and the beasts die and go to the same place. All we are is dust in the wind. 3:20
- Who knows that at death the spirit of humans go up, and the spirits of beasts go down? 3:21
- the best we can do is to rejoice in our our works. 3:22
- Two are better than one: the value of friendship 4:9-13
- A fool is known by a multitude of words. 5:3
- If you promise to pay someone something, pay it. 5:4
- Don't make a promise that you can't keep. 5:4
- If you love silver and riches, you'll never be satisfied. 5:10
- You can't take it with you. 5:15
- Eat, drink, and enjoy your good work. 5:18
- Don't we all go to the same place when we die? 6:6
- Who knows what is good in this life? Or what will happen on earth after we die? 6:12
- A good reputation is more valuable than precious ointment. 7:1
- It's better to be rebuked by wise people than to be praised by fools. 7:5
- It's better to patient than proud. 7:8
- Don't be quick to anger. 7:9
- Don't say, "I miss the good old days." 7:10
- Don't believe everything people say. 7:21
- Try to discover things with reason. Seek wisdom. Avoid folly, foolishness, and madness. 7:25
- Eat, and to drink, and be merry. 8:15
- The same thing happens to us all: we die. 9:2-3
- As long as we live, there is hope. A living dog is better than a dead lion. 9:4
- The living know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no reward, and their memory is forgotten. 9:5
- All our love, hatred, and envy die with us. Nothing survives our death. 9:6
- So eat your bread and drink your wine with a happy heart. 9:7
- Live joyfully with the wife that you love. 9:9
- Whatever you do in this life, do it with all your might. Because there is no work, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave. 9:10
- The race isn't to the swift, nor the battle for the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to those with understanding,
nor good fortune to the skilled; time and chance happen to us all. 9:11
- For none of us knows when we will die. Like fish in a net or birds in a snare, we are snared in an evil time,
when it falls suddenly upon us. 9:12
- Wisdom is better than strength or weapons of war. But one bad person can destroy much that is good. 9:16-18
- Dead flies make an ointment stinky, as small mistakes tarnish a wise reputation. 10:1
- The words of the wise are gracious, but fools are swallowed by their own lips. 10:12
- A fool is full of words. 10:14
- Enjoy your youth, follow your heart, and look where you're going. 11:9
- There is no end to the making of books. 12:12
- Much study is a weariness of the flesh. 12:12