Bible Reading for July 25

Bible Reading for July 25

Ecclesiastes Chapter 5

1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready 
to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that 
they do evil.

2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter 
any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: 
therefore let thy words be few.

3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's 
voice is known by multitude of words.

4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no 
pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow 
and not pay.

6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou 
before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at 
thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers 
vanities: but fear thou God.

8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of 
judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he 
that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is 
served by the field.

10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that 
loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good 
is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their 
eyes?

12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: 
but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches 
kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and 
there is nothing in his hand.

15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as 
he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away 
in his hand.

16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall 
he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and 
wrath with his sickness.

18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat 
and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh 
under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is 
his portion.

19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath 
given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice 
in his labour; this is the gift of God.

20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God 
answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 6

1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common 
among men:

2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he 
wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him 
not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and 
it is an evil disease.

3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the 
days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and 
also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better 
than he.

4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name 
shall be covered with darkness.

5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more 
rest than the other.

6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no 
good: do not all go to one place?

7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not 
filled.

8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that 
knoweth to walk before the living?

9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this 
is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is 
man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of 
his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what 
shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes Chapter 7

1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death 
than the day of one's birth.

2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house 
of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it 
to his heart.

3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance 
the heart is made better.

4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of 
fools is in the house of mirth.

5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear 
the song of fools.

6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the 
fool: this also is vanity.

7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the 
patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom 
of fools.

10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than 
these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them 
that see the sun.

12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency 
of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he 
hath made crooked?

14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity 
consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end 
that man should find nothing after him.

15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man 
that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that 
prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why 
shouldest thou destroy thyself?

17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou 
die before thy time?

18 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this 
withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of 
them all.

19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in 
the city.

20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy 
servant curse thee:

22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself 
likewise hast cursed others.

23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was 
far from me.

24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, 
and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of 
foolishness and madness:

26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares 
and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from 
her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, 
to find out the account:

28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand 
have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they 
have sought out many inventions.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 8

1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? 
a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face 
shall be changed.

2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of 
the oath of God.

3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for 
he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, 
What doest thou?

5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise 
man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the 
misery of man is great upon him.

7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it 
shall be?

8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; 
neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in 
that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is 
done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another 
to his own hurt.

10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place 
of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: 
this is also vanity.

11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, 
therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, 
yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which 
fear before him:

13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong 
his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just 
men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, 
there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the 
righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the 
sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide 
with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under 
the sun.

16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business 
that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor 
night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the 
work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it 
out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to 
know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

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