Favorite Or Important Verses From Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs (NIV)

Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs

1)To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinners he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.
Ecclesiastes 2:26

2)I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
Ecclesiastes 3:14

3)Do not be quick with your mouth; do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2

4)When God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work—this is a gift of God. He seldom reflects on the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with gladness of heart.
Ecclesiastes 5:19,20

5)A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:1

6)Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:3

7)The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
Ecclesiastes 7:8

8)The man who fears God avoids all extremes.
Ecclesiastes 7:18

9)There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.
Ecclesiastes 7:20

10)God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search of many schemes.
Ecclesiastes 7:29

11)Wisdom brightens a man’s face and changes its hard appearance.
Ecclesiastes 8:1

12)Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
Ecclesiastes 8:5

13)Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
Ecclesiastes 11:1

14)Sow your seeds in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, or whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.
Ecclesiastes 11:6

15)Banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the trouble of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 11:10

16)Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:13



SONG OF SONGS

1)Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out.
Song of songs 1:3

2)You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.
Song of Songs 4:15

3)My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
Song of Songs 5:10

4)But my dove, my perfect one is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.
Song of Songs 6:9