Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=SongofSolomon+001   Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs) Traditional wedding celebrations in the Middle East cast the bride and groom in the roles of a king and his queen. The festivities include love songs and also special songs that praise the physical beauty of the bride or the handsomeness…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+012     Ecclesiastes 12 (ESV) 1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; 2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+011     Ecclesiastes 11 (ESV) 9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. 10 Remove vexation from…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+010     Ecclesiastes 10 (ESV) 1 Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2 A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left. 3 Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+009     Ecclesiastes 9 (ESV) 7 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. 8 Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. 9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+008     Ecclesiastes 8 (ESV) 5 Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way. 6 For there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him. 7 For he does not know what is to be, for who can…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+007     Ecclesiastes 7 (ESV) 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. 21 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22 Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others… 27 Behold, this is what I…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+006     Ecclesiastes 6 (ESV) 7 All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. 8 For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+005     Ecclesiastes 5 (ESV) 18 Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. 19 Everyone also to whom God…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+004     Ecclesiastes 4 (ESV) 7 Again, I saw vanity under the sun: 8 one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of…