Bible Verses About Philosophy: The Nature of Things

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

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.

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

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