Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 10:7 ESV

I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:18 ESV

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:17 ESV

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:9 ESV

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:8 ESV

Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:6 ESV

Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

over 11 years ago

then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:16 ESV

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,

over 11 years ago

Amelia Gillen

highlighted Ecclesiastes 8:14 ESV

There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

over 11 years ago