item: #1 of 6
          id: 29971
      author: Jennings, Frederick Charles
       title: Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes
        date: None
       words: 45213
      flesch: 77
     summary: And this is proof of the depravity of the times!--not proof, mark, of just that very thing that is the heart and soul of the book: the weary, unsatisfied, empty heart of poor man looking backward or forward for the satisfaction that the present always fails to give under the sun, and which he, who was wiser than all who came before him, Solomon, warns his readers _against_! in this book in which poor man at his highest is allowed to give voice to his deepest questions, in which all the chaos, and darkness, the without form and void state of his poor, distracted, disjointed being is seen; death is indeed the King of Terrors, upsetting all his reasonings, and bringing the wisdom and folly, between which he had so carefully discriminated, to one level in a moment.
    keywords: book; day; death; earth; end; glory; god; good; grace; heart; human; jesus; joy; judgment; life; light; lord; love; man; men; new; place; reason; scene; solomon; spirit; sun; things; thou; time; vanity; way; wisdom; word; work
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 39913
      author: Cox, Samuel
       title: Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes
        date: None
       words: 82559
      flesch: 73
     summary: And when, as life passes on, we discover that it is the bad boy who often gets the plum-cake, and the good boy who goes to the rod; that bad men often have beautiful wives and large estates, while good men fail of both; when we find the knave rising to place and authority, and honest Goodchild in the workhouse or the _Gazette_, then there rise up in our hearts the very doubts and perplexities and eager painful questions which of old time troubled the Psalmist and the Prophet. No doubt there were then, as there are now, many men of business who were wise enough to take pleasure in all their labours, to cast their burden of care on Him in whose care stand both to-morrow and to-day; men to whom worship was a calming and strengthening communion with the Father of their spirits, and who advanced, through toil, to worthy or even noble ends.
    keywords: book; business; chap; chief; coheleth; conclusion; day; death; duty; earth; evil; god; good; hand; hath; heart; hebrew; hope; judgment; king; labour; law; life; love; man; men; new; order; people; place; pleasure; preacher; present; quest; sense; sidenote; solomon; soul; spirit; sun; things; thought; thy; time; vanity; ver; wealth; wisdom; words; work; world
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 8021
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Bible, King James version, Book 21: Ecclesiastes
        date: None
       words: 5847
      flesch: 90
     summary: Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 21:009:011 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 21:009:012 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
    keywords: god; hath; heart; man; time; vanity
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 8193
      author: Dillon, Emile Joseph
       title: The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
        date: None
       words: 58330
      flesch: 74
     summary: I have worried myself about God, and succeeded not, For I am more stupid than other men, And in me there is no human understanding: Neither have I learned wisdom, So that I might comprehend the science of sacred things. On God_ I Sentence of the man who has worried himself about God: I have worried myself about God and succeeded not; For I am more stupid than other men, And in me there is no human understanding.
    keywords: agur; behold; book; days; death; earth; end; evil; existence; eyes; fact; form; god; good; hand; hath; heart; hebrew; hope; human; jahveh; job; justice; know; knowledge; koheleth; life; light; man; men; pain; place; poem; second; soul; strophe; suffering; sun; text; thee; theory; things; thou; thy; time; vanity; version; way; wicked; wisdom; words; work; world
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 8248
      author: Anonymous
       title: The World English Bible (WEB): Ecclesiastes
        date: None
       words: 5796
      flesch: 94
     summary: There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
    keywords: god; heart; man; sun; time; vanity
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 8323
      author: None
       title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 23: Ecclesiastes The Challoner Revision
        date: None
       words: 6554
      flesch: 89
     summary: There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain. 8:15. All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: 9:2.
    keywords: god; hath; man; sun; things; time; vanity
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