Ecclesiastes 9:11

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

I turned me to another thing, and I saw under [the] sun, that running [or course] is not of swift men, neither battle is of strong men, neither bread is of wise men, neither riches be of teachers, nor grace is of craftsmen; but time and hap is in all things.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:14

And Absalom said, and all the men of Israel, The counsel of Hushai of Archi is better than the counsel of Ahithophel; and the profitable counsel of Ahithophel was destroyed by God’s will, that the Lord should bring in evil on Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

And Ahithophel saw, that his counsel was not done, and he saddled his ass, and rose up, and went into his house, and into his city; and when his house was disposed, he perished by hanging himself, and he was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

2 Chronicles 20:15

and he said, All Judah, and ye that dwell in Jerusalem, and thou, king Jehoshaphat, perceive ye, or taketh heed, The Lord saith these things to you, Do not ye dread, neither be ye afeared of this multitude, for it is not your battle, but God’s battle.

Job 34:29

For when he granteth peace, who is it that condemneth him? And since he hideth his cheer, who is that seeth him? And on folks, and on all men, he hath power to do such things.

Psalm 76:5

all unwise men of heart were troubled. They slept their sleep, that is, were dead; and all men found nothing of riches in their hands.

Proverbs 1:5

A wise man hearing shall be the wiser; and a man understanding shall hold governance.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

I passed forth to behold wisdom, and errors, and folly; I said, What is a man, that he may pursue [or follow] the king, his maker?

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I have learned that all the works, that God made, last steadfastly unto without end; we may not add anything to those works, neither take away from those things, which God made, that he be dreaded.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

And I said in mine heart, The Lord shall deem a just [or rightwise] man, and an unfaithful man; and the time of each thing shall be then.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I turned me to other things, and I saw false challenges, that be done under the sun, and the tears of the guiltless, and no man a comforter; and that they destitute, either forsaken, of the help of all men, may not against-stand the violence of them.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again I beheld all the travails of men, and busynesses; and I perceived that those be open to [the] envy of the neighbour; and therefore in this is vanity, and superfluous busyness.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Behold thou the works of God, and see that no man may amend him, whom God hath despised.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

But all things be kept uncertain into the time to coming [or to come]; for all things befall evenly to a just [or rightwise] man and to a wicked man, to a good man and to an evil man, to a clean man and to an unclean man, to a man offering offerings and sacrifices, and to a man despising sacrifices; as a good man, so and a sinner; as a forsworn man, so and he that greatly sweareth truth.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This thing is the worst among all things, that be done under the sun, that the same thing befall to all men; wherefore and the hearts of the sons of men be filled with malice and with despising in their life; and after these things, they shall be led down into hells [or to hell].

Jeremiah 46:6

A swift man shall not flee, and a strong man guess not himself to be saved; at the north, beside the flood Euphrates, they were overcome, and fell down.

Jeremiah 48:14

How say ye, We be strong, and stalworthy men to fight?

Jeremiah 9:23

The Lord saith these things, A wise man have not glory in his wisdom, and a strong man have not glory in his strength, and a rich man have not glory in his riches;

Daniel 4:35

And all the dwellers of earth be areckoned into nought at him; for by his will he doeth, both in the hosts of heaven, and in the dwellers of earth, and none is that against-standeth his hand, and saith to him, Why didest thou so?

Zechariah 4:6

And he answered, and said to me, and spake, This is the word of the Lord, saying to Zerubbabel, Not in host, neither in strength, but in my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:18

And ye shall be turned again, and ye shall see, what is betwixt the just man and the unpious, betwixt the serving to the Lord, and not serving to him.

Ephesians 1:11

In whom [also] we be called by lot, before-ordained by the purpose of him that worketh all things by the counsel of his will;

Deuteronomy 8:17

lest thou wouldest say in thine heart, My strength, and the might of mine hand, hath given all these things to me.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But think thou upon thy Lord God, that he hath given strengths to thee, that he should fulfill his covenant, of which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day showeth.

1 Samuel 17:50

And David had the mastery against the Philistine in a sling and a stone, and he killed the Philistine smitten. And when David had no sword in his hand,

1 Samuel 6:9

And ye shall behold it, and soothly if it goeth up against Bethshemesh by the way of his coasts, the Lord hath then done to you this great evil; but if it go not thither, we shall know that the hand of the Lord touched not us, but this thing hath fallen to us by hap.