Ecclesiastes 1:1 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THE WORDS of the Preacher, the son of David and king in Jerusalem. American Standard Version (1901) The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Common English Bible The words of the Teacher of the Assembly, David’s son, king in Jerusalem: Catholic Public Domain Version The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, the king of Jerusalem. English Standard Version 2016 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. |
Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things. Therefore come now, that we may take counsel together.
They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.
And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.
THE spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me. He hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives and deliverance to them that are shut up:
Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.
And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.