Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or ecclesiastes:
“It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 20:14.
“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)