• Ecc 1:4
• Psa 90:3

• Ecc 2:26 - KJV wording: To the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. - Alternative translation: to the 'sinner' He assigns the task of gathering and amassing, only to hand it over at last to the man who is pleasing to God. Indeed, this is vanity and chasing of wind! {replacement wording is quoted directly from Koheleth: the Man and His World: a Study of Ecclesiastes, by Robert Gordis, New York: Schocken Books, 1968}

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• Ecc 5:6 - a/r: ANGEL or: messenger of God
• Ecc 5:18 - a/r: COMELY or: seemly

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• Ecc 7:7 - a/r: MAD or: foolish
• Ecc 7:26-29 - Distrust of women (the theme of this Bible paragraph)

  • In the TEV this Bible paragraph reads as follows:

"Thoughts about Life" - 26 I found something more bitter than death—the woman who is like a trap. The love she offers you will catch you like a net; and her arms round you will hold you like a chain. A man who pleases God can get away, but she will catch the sinner. 27 Yes, said the Philosopher, I found this out little by little while I was looking for answers. 28 I have looked for other answers but have found none. I found one man in a thousand that I could respect, but not one woman. 29 This is all that I have learnt: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.

Robert Gordis, in Koheleth, the man and his world: a study of Ecclesiastes, Third Augmented Edition (New York: Schocken Books, 1968, pages 282-285), comments:

This famous passage in which Koheleth [the name of the author of Ecclesiates] expresses his distrust of women testifies to the attraction they hold over him... That this is only one aspect of Koheleth's attitude toward women is clear from his counsel urging, "behold life with the woman thou lovest" (9:9). The ideal remains before him, no matter how often the reality has brought him disappointment -- a clue to the idealistic source from which his cynicism flows... The two attitudes are, of course, very common in Wisdom literature... It is generally overlooked that Koheleth does not have too high a regard for the character of the male sex either, since he finds men only one-tenth of one percent better than the women! Having reached this result, he concludes by saying that the human race itself leaves much to be desired... This weakness Koheleth attributes not to God's implanting but to men's propensity to eschew the straight path in favor of machinations. That evil is not God's will, but man's doing, is the general standpoint of Judaism as a whole.

To further explore the role of women in the Bible, especially in early Christian churches, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/women.htm.

• Ecc 7:29
  • Gen 1:27
  • S&H 196:1

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• Ecc 10:1 a/r: APOTHECARY or: perfumer

• Ecc 11:5 - a/r: SPIRIT or: wind

• Ecc 12:13 - whole duty
• S&H 340:4
• Mis 293:21-11
• '01 32:18-26