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ECC 9:1–9:18 ©

The Book of Ecclesiastes 9

9Indeed, all of this I gave to my heart in order to examine all of this: that the righteous and the wise and their work are in the hand of God. Either love or hate, humanity is not knowing; both are to their faces.

2Everything is as for all:

one happening for the righteous person and for the wicked person,

for the good person,

and for the pure person and for the unclean person,

and for the person who sacrifices and for the person who does not sacrifice.

As the good person, so the sinner;

the person who swears an oath is

just as the person who fears an oath.

3This is a misfortune in everything that is done under the sun: that one happening is for everyone. And also, the heart of the sons of humanity is full of evil and madness is in their heart during their lives and after him they go to the dead. 4For whoever that is joined to all the living, there is confidence for him—because for a living dog, it is better than the dead lion. 5For the living know that they will die, but the dead, they are not knowing anything, and there is no longer for them a reward, because their memory is forgotten.

6Their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished.And there is not for them a portion any longer in perpetuity in all that is done under the sun.

7Go—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a good heart, because God has already accepted your deeds. 8At every time, let your clothes be white and do not let oil be lacking on your head. 9See life with a wife whom you love all the days of your vaporous life, which he has given to you under the sun, that is all the days of your vapor, for it is your portion in life and in your toil that you are toiling under the sun. 10Everything that your hand finds to do, do it with your strength, because there is no deed or scheme of things or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going to there.

11I again saw under the sun

that not to the swift is the race

and not to the mighty is the war

and even not to the wise is bread

and even not to discerning people is wealth

and even not to understanding people is favor,

for time and occurrence will happen to all of them.

12For even humanity does not know his time.

Like the fish that are caught in a troublesome net

and like the birds that are caught in the snare—

like them, the sons of humanity are snared at a time of misfortune when it falls upon them suddenly.

13Also, this I saw: wisdom under the sun, and great it was to me. 14There was a small city and a few men in it, and a great king came against it, and he besieged it, and he built great siegeworks against it. 15And he found in it a poor, wise man, and he delivered the city with his wisdom. And a person did not remember that poor man. 16And I said, I, “Better is wisdom than might, but the wisdom of the poor person is despised, and his words—they are not heard.”

17The words of wise people in quietness are heeded

more than the cry of a ruler among the fools.

18Better is wisdom than weapons of battle,

but one sinner will destroy much good.

ECC 9:1–9:18 ©

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