4894 verses about World

For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

“So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

“For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up:

For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;

You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold, this is new?” It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.

I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.