73 questions Reader was asked across 13 books
“Why hast thou done so?”
“What my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem?”
“I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials or any others who would be doing the work?”
“Now Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her?”
“Who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?”
“Who can stand before his cold?”
“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?”
“Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?”
“Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?”
“Doth not wisdom cry?”
“Is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?”
“But a wounded spirit who can bear?”
“But a faithful man who can find?”
“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”
“I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”
“How can a man then understand his own way?”
“If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?”
“Seest thou a man diligent in his business?”
“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?”
“Who hath woe?”
“Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?”
“Doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it?”
“Do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?”
“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?”
“But who is able to stand before envy?”
“Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?”
“Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?”
“What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun?”
“See, this is new?”
“And of mirth, What doeth it?”
“For what can the man do that cometh after the king?”
“What hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?”
“Who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?”
“What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?”
“Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?”
“And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive?”
“But how can one be warm alone?”
“Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?”
“And what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?”
“And what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?”
“Do not all go to one place?”
“What hath the wise more than the fool?”
“Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?”
“Who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?”
“Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?”
“For who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?”
“Why shouldest thou destroy thyself?”
“Why shouldest thou die before thy time?”
“That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?”
“Who is as the wise man?”
“What doest thou?”
“For who can tell him when it shall be?”
“Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion?”
“And what shall be after him, who can tell him?”
“As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things?”
“Who can know it?”
“Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?”
“Who shall declare his generation?”
“Who shall ascend into heaven?”
“Who shall descend into the deep?”
“But what saith it?”
“What glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently?”
“Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?”
“If it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”
“If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
“What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness”
“Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”
“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?”
“And wherefore slew he him?”
“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
“He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
“Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”