Ecclesiastes Lyrics

Veni Domine - Ecclesiastes Lyrics

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Ecclesiastes Lyrics

I The Teacher Was King Over Israel

 I Devoted Myself To Study And Explore

By Wisdom All That Is Done Under Heaven

  What A Heavy Burden God Has Laid On Men

I Have Seen All The Things That Are Done

Under The Sun, A Chasing After The Wind

 What Is Twisted Can Not Be Straightened

  What Is Lacking Can Not Be Counted

  I Applied Myself To The Understanding

  Of Wisdom And Also Of Madness And Folly

But I Learned That This Too

Is A Chasing After The Wind

 What Is Twisted Can Not Be Straightened

  What Is Lacking Can Not Be Counted

With Much Wisdom Comes Much Sorrow

  The More Knowledge The More Grief

 I Denied Myself Nothing

 My Eyes Desired

 I Refused My Heart No Pleasure

 My Heart Took Delight In All My Work

  And This Was The Reward For All My Labour

Yet When I Surveyed All That My Hands Had Done

And What I Had Toiled To Achieve

Everything Was A Chasing After The Wind

 The Fate Of The Fool Will Overtake Me

What Then Do I Gain By Being Wise

 For The Wise Man Like The Fool

  Will Not Be Long Remembered

  In The Days To Come Both Will Be Forgotten

Like The Fool, The Wise Man Too Must Die

I The Teacher Was King Over Israel

 I Devoted Myself To Study And Explore