Ecclesiastes Chapter 9 - King James Strong Number Version

1: For all this I considered <H5414> in my heart <H3820> even to declare <H0952> all this, that the righteous, <H6662> and the wise, <H2450> and their works, <H5652> [are] in the hand <H3027> of God: <H0430> no man <H0120> knoweth <H3045> either <H1571> love <H0160> or <H1571> hatred <H8135> [by] all [that is] before <H6440> them.
2: All [things come] alike <H0834> to all: [there is] one <H0259> event <H4745> to the righteous, <H6662> and to the wicked; <H7563> to the good <H2896> and to the clean, <H2889> and to the unclean; <H2931> to him that sacrificeth, <H2076> and to him that sacrificeth <H2076> not: as [is] the good, <H2896> so [is] the sinner; <H2398> [and] he that sweareth, <H7650> as [he] that feareth <H3373> an oath. <H7621>
3: This [is] an evil <H7451> among all [things] that are done <H6213> under the sun, <H8121> that [there is] one <H0259> event <H4745> unto all: yea, also the heart <H3820> of the sons <H1121> of men <H0120> is full <H4390> of evil, <H7451> and madness <H1947> [is] in their heart <H3824> while they live, <H2416> and after <H0310> that [they go] to the dead. <H4191>
4: For to him <H4310> that is joined <H2266> to all the living <H2416> there is <H3426> hope: <H0986> for a living <H2416> dog <H3611> is better <H2896> than a dead <H4191> lion. <H0738>
5: For the living <H2416> know <H3045> that they shall die: <H4191> but the dead <H4191> know <H3045> not any thing, <H3972> neither have they any more a reward; <H7939> for the memory <H2143> of them is forgotten. <H7911>
6: Also their love, <H0160> and their hatred, <H8135> and their envy, <H7068> is now <H3528> perished; <H0006> neither have they any more a portion <H2506> for ever <H5769> in any [thing] that is done <H6213> under the sun. <H8121>
7: Go thy way, <H3212> eat <H0398> thy bread <H3899> with joy, <H8057> and drink <H8354> thy wine <H3196> with a merry <H2896> heart; <H3820> for God <H0430> now <H3528> accepteth <H7521> thy works. <H4639>
8: Let thy garments <H0899> be always <H6256> white; <H3836> and let thy head <H7218> lack <H2637> no ointment. <H8081>
9: Live <H2416> joyfully <H7200> with the wife <H0802> whom thou lovest <H0157> all the days <H3117> of the life <H2416> of thy vanity, <H1892> which he hath given <H5414> thee under the sun, <H8121> all the days <H3117> of thy vanity: <H1892> for that [is] thy portion <H2506> in [this] life, <H2416> and in thy labour <H5999> which thou takest <H6001> under the sun. <H8121>
10: Whatsoever thy hand <H3027> findeth <H4672> to do, <H6213> do <H6213> [it] with thy might; <H3581> for [there is] no work, <H4639> nor device, <H2808> nor knowledge, <H1847> nor wisdom, <H2451> in the grave, <H7585> whither thou goest. <H1980>
11: I returned, <H7725> and saw <H7200> under the sun, <H8121> that the race <H4793> [is] not to the swift, <H7031> nor the battle <H4421> to the strong, <H1368> neither yet bread <H3899> to the wise, <H2450> nor yet riches <H6239> to men of understanding, <H0995> nor yet favour <H2580> to men of skill; <H3045> but time <H6256> and chance <H6294> happeneth <H7136> to them all.
12: For man <H0120> also knoweth <H3045> not his time: <H6256> as the fishes <H1709> that are taken <H0270> in an evil <H7451> net, <H4685> and as the birds <H6833> that are caught <H0270> in the snare; <H6341> so <H1992> [are] the sons <H1121> of men <H0120> snared <H3369> in an evil <H7451> time, <H6256> when it falleth <H5307> suddenly <H6597> upon them.
13: This <H2090> wisdom <H2451> have I seen <H7200> also under the sun, <H8121> and it [seemed] great <H1419> unto me:
14: [There was] a little <H6996> city, <H5892> and few <H4592> men <H0582> within it; and there came <H0935> a great <H1419> king <H4428> against it, and besieged <H5437> it, and built <H1129> great <H1419> bulwarks <H4685> against it:
15: Now there was found <H4672> in it a poor <H4542> wise <H2450> man, <H0376> and he by his wisdom <H2451> delivered <H4422> the city; <H5892> yet no man <H0120> remembered <H2142> that same poor <H4542> man. <H0376>
16: Then said <H0559> I, Wisdom <H2451> [is] better <H2896> than strength: <H1369> nevertheless the poor man's <H4542> wisdom <H2451> [is] despised, <H0959> and his words <H1697> are not heard. <H8085>
17: The words <H1697> of wise <H2450> [men are] heard <H8085> in quiet <H5183> more than the cry <H2201> of him that ruleth <H4910> among fools. <H3684>
18: Wisdom <H2451> [is] better <H2896> than weapons <H3627> of war: <H7128> but one <H0259> sinner <H2398> destroyeth <H0006> much <H7235> good. <H2896>