“Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be…

“For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?” Historical and Contextual Background:The book of Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon, who…

“There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that…

“And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done:…

“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” 1. Context: The book…

“Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before…

“There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked…

“When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep…

“Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it…

“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him…