Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

Ecclesiastes

Chapter 1: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• Everything is meaningless – v 2
• Nothing new under the sun – v 9
• Everyone will be forgotten – v 11
• Learn, study, apply – v 13
• More knowledge, more sorrow – v 18

Chapter 2: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• No amount of pleasure and work will give fulfillment – v 10-11
• Wisdom > Folly – v 13
• Both wise and fools die and are forgotten – v 16
• All you’ve worked for will be given to those after you – v 18
• A gift from God is to enjoy life & work – v 24
• Knowledge & happiness is given to those who please God – v 26

Chapter 3: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• A time for everything – v 1
• No one can understand what God has done from the beginning of time – v 11
• Be happy and do good – v 12
• God’s work endures forever – v 14
• A time to judge both righteous and wicked – v 17
• Humans have the same fate as animals; they both die – v 19
• All came from dust and all return to dust – v 20
• Enjoy your work – v 22

Chapter 4: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• There is oppression throughout the world – v 1
• The one who has never been born is better off than the living and the dead – v 3
• Achievements and work come from a person’s envy of another – v 4
• Better poor and at peace than rich with painful toil – v 6
• Not good to be alone and work for one’s self – v 8
• Two are better than one – v 9
• Poor and wise > rich and stubborn – v 13

Chapter 5: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• Watch what you do in church – v 1
• Be slow to speak and listen (before God); let your words be few – v 2
• Fulfill your vow to God – v 4
• Better to not make a vow – 5
• Avoid too much dreaming and many words – v 7
• Don’t be surprised when the poor is oppressed and justice denied – v 8
• Lovers of money never have enough or  are satisfied with their income – v 10
• More goods, more consumers – v 11
• Laborers enjoy sleep but the wealth of the rich permits no sleep – v 12
• Don’t overwork for wealth – v 13
• Leave  an inheritance – v 14
• You take nothing to the grave – 15
• Eat, drink and find satisfaction in your work – v 18
• When God blesses you in this life with wealth and the ability to enjoy it, you’ll rarely reflect on life because God keeps you occupied with gratitude – v 19-20 

Chapter 6: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• God gives some people wealth but not the ability to enjoy it; strangers will – v 2
• Stillborn children are better than a rich man who: had many years, had many children, didn’t enjoy his prosperity, recovered a proper burial – v 3
• More words, less meaning – v 11
• No one knows what will happen in life or after they die – v 12

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Chapter 7: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• Good name > riches and day of death > day of birth – v 1
• Everyone is destined to die – v 2
• Sad face is good for the heart – v 3
• Listen to the rebuke of the wise – v 5
• Bribes corrupts the heart – v 7
• Patience > pride – v 8
• Be slow to anger – v 9
• Don’t ask why the past is better than the future (ungrateful) – v 10
• Wisdom and money is a shelter but wisdom is better than money – v 12
• Good times? Be happy. Bad times? Be grateful still. No one knows their future – v 14
• Don’t be over-righteous / over-wise  or over-wicked / fool – v 16-17
• Whoever fears God avoid all extremes – v 18
• The wise > many rulers – v 19
• No one is righteous – v 20
• Don’t pay attention to everything people say – v 21
• A woman who is a snare is more bitter than death; only a man who pleases God can escape her – v 26
• God made us upright but we’ve gone astray – v 29

Chapter 8: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• Obey rulers – v 2
• Don’t stand up for a bad cause – v 3
• No one knows the future – v 7
• You cannot control when you’ll die – v 8
• When justice is delayed, evil is encouraged – v 11
• Even though the wicked thrives, it will not end well for them – v 13
• Sometimes  the righteous suffer and wicked thrive – v 14
• Enjoy your life then joy will follow you in all you do – v 15
• No one understands what happens in life, not even the wise – v 17

Chapter 9: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• Everyone has the same destiny; everyone’s heart is evil – v 3
• The living has hope but the dead knows nothing – v 4
• The dead can’t do anything else – v 6
• Enjoy life with your wife, all your days – v 9
• Do your best at everything because you can’t do anything else when you’re dead – v 10
• Time and chance happen to everyone – v 11
• No one knows when trouble will come on them – v 12
• Listen to the wise rather than the shouts of fools – v 17
• Wisdom is better than weapons – v 18

Chapter 10: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• Fools show everyone their folly – v 3
• Calmness can settle great offenses – v 4
• Skill brings success – v 10
• The wise speak kind words, but fools ruin themselves – v 12
• Fools talk a lot; no one knows the future – v 14
• Don’t curse rulers or the rich in your heart – v 20

Chapter 11: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• Have a diverse investment because you don’t know what will happen – v 2
• Stop watching, and get to work – v 4 
• No one can understand the work of God – v 5
• Be productive because you do not know what will succeed – v 6
• Enjoy all your days; remember the bad ones for there will be many – v 8
• Enjoy life but be careful what you do; God will bring you into judgement – v 9
• Overcome anxiety – v 10

Chapter 12: Ecclesiastes: Bible Book Breakdown

• Remember God in your youth before trouble comes – v 1
• Remember God before you die – v 6
• You return to the ground and God takes back the spirit when we die – v 7
• Solomon thought deeply and wrote many proverbs – v 9
• He wrote truth – v 10
• Too much writing of books and studying wearies the body – v 12
• This is the conclusion to the book:
• Fear God and keep His commandments – v 13
• God will bring everything into judgement whether good or bad – v 14