Ecclesiastes 1:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THE WORDS of the Preacher, the son of David and king in Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

¹ The words of the Teacher of the Assembly, David’s son, king in Jerusalem:

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, the king of Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:1 Cross References

2 Chronicles 9:30

Thy father oppressed us with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.

Nehemiah 6:7

2 And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat had hired him.

Psalm 40:9

6 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee : and let such as love thy salvation say always : The Lord be magnified.

Proverbs 1:1

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother :

Proverbs 31:31

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.

Ecclesiastes 1:12

I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

He that keepeth the commandments shall find no evil. The heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer.

Isaiah 61:1

And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall see them, shall know them, that these are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

Jonah 3:2

0 And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

2 Peter 2:5

4 Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction: