Daily Devotions

Ecc. 11:6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both alike will be good. He had done an incredible amount of quality work to get where he was.  Soon, he would be graduating…

Ecc. 10:1-2 Dead flies putrefy the perfumer’s ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor.  A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left. When I first met him, I was not sure how…

Ecc. 9:17-18 The words of wise men heard in quietness are better than the shouting of one who rules among fools.  Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. They say that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.  When they started their group project, one girl certainly made sure to…

Ecc. 9:11-12 I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the strong, and neither is bread to the wise nor riches to those of intelligence and understanding nor favor to men of ability; but time and chance overtake them all.  For man also…

Ecc. 8:16-17 When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night, then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun.  For though a man…

Ecc. 8:12-13 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.  But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he…

Ecc. 7:27-29 “Here is what I have found,” says the Preacher, “adding one thing to the other to find out the reason, which my soul still seeks but I cannot find: one man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all these I have not found.  Truly, this only I have found:…

Ecc. 7:13-14 Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked?  In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, so that man can find out nothing that will come after him. There…

Ecc. 7:1a A good name is better than precious ointment… These brothers were very influential in their large family, but their influence came in different forms.  The older brother had really made it in the world, and everyone referred to him as the rich uncle or the rich nephew or the rich son.  He had…

Ecc. 5:1 Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil. It is sad to think that he had grown accustomed to his parents’ divorce at such a young age, but he…