--- title: Ecclesiastes — the Tanakh in Hebrew, Aramaic and English, with trees and pragmatics description: The book of Ecclesiastes (קֹהֶלֶת), Ketuvim — the Writings, in Mova's open Tanakh corpus: 12 chapters and 222 verses in Hebrew, Aramaic (the Targum) and English (JPS 1917), each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / Ecclesiastes # Ecclesiastes קֹהֶלֶת 12 chapters, 222 verses: Hebrew, Aramaic (the Targum) and English (JPS 1917). - [Chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/1/) — THE WORDS OF the Koheleth, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. — 18 verses - [Chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/2/) — I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity. — 26 verses - [Chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/3/) — To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: — 22 verses - [Chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/4/) — But I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. — 17 verses - [Chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/5/) — Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few. — 19 verses - [Chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/6/) — There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men: — 12 verses - [Chapter 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/7/) — A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. — 29 verses - [Chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/8/) — Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? — 17 verses - [Chapter 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/9/) — For all this I laid to my heart, even to make clear all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them. — 18 verses - [Chapter 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/10/) — Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour. — 20 verses - [Chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/11/) — Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days. — 10 verses - [Chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/12/) — Remember then thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say: 'I have no pleasure in them'; — 14 verses - ← previous: [Lamentations](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM/) - next →: [Esther](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/) - ↑ back to [Ketuvim — the Writings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/)