\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Ecclesiastes}
{\MT Ecclesiastes
\par }{\MTB or, The Preacher

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
words
of Ecclesiastes,
the
son
of
David,
king
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Vanity
of
vanities,
said Ecclesiastes
vanity
of
vanities,
and
all
is
vanity.
\VS{3}What hath
a
man more
of
all
his labour,
that
he taketh
under
the
sun?
\VS{4}One
generation passeth
away,
and
another
generation cometh:
but
the
earth standeth
for
ever.
\VS{5}The
sun riseth,
and goeth down,
and returneth
to
his
place:
and
there rising again,
\VS{6}Maketh
his
round
by
the
south,
and turneth
again
to
the
north:
the
spirit goeth
forward surveying
all
places
round
about,
and returneth
to
his circuits.
\VS{7}All
the rivers
run
into
the
sea,
yet
the
sea doth
not overflow: unto
the
place
from whence
the rivers
come,
they
return,
to
flow
again.
\VS{8}All
things
are hard:
man
cannot explain
them
by
word.
The
eye
is
not
filled
with
seeing,
neither
is
the
ear
filled
with
hearing.
\VS{9}What
is
it
that hath
been?
the
same
thing
that
shall
be.
What
is
it
that hath
been
done?
the
same
that
shall
be
done.
\VS{10}Nothing
under
the sun
is
new, neither
is
any
man able
to
say:
Behold
this
is
new:
for
it hath
already
gone
before
in
the
ages
that
were
before
us.
\VS{11}There
is
no
remembrance
of
former
things:
nor
indeed
of
those
things which hereafter
are
to
come,
shall
there
be
any
remembrance
with
them
that
shall
be
in
the
latter
end.
\VS{12}I Ecclesiastes
was
king
over
Israel
in
Jerusalem,
\VS{13}And
I proposed
in
my
mind
to
seek
and
search
out
wisely
concerning
all
things
that
are
done
under
the sun.
This painful occupation hath
God
given
to
the
children
of
men,
to
be exercised therein.
\VS{14}I
have
seen
all
things
that
are
done
under
the
sun,
and
behold
all
is
vanity,
and vexation
of
spirit.
\VS{15}The perverse
are hard
to
be corrected,
and
the
number
of fools
is infinite.
\VS{16}I
have
spoken
in
my
heart,
saying:
Behold
I
am
become
great,
and
have
gone
beyond
all
in
wisdom,
that
were
before
me
in
Jerusalem:
and
my
mind hath contemplated
many
things
wisely,
and
I
have learned.
\VS{17}And
I
have
given
my
heart
to
know prudence,
and learning,
and errors,
and
folly:
and
I
have
perceived
that
in
these
also
there
was labour,
and vexation
of
spirit,
\VS{18}Because
In
much
wisdom
there
is
much indignation:
and
he
that addeth
knowledge, addeth
also labour.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
said
in
my
heart:
I
will
go,
and abound
with delights,
and
enjoy
good things.
And
I
saw
that
this
also
was
vanity.
\VS{2}Laughter
I counted error:
and
to
mirth
I
said:
Why art thou vainly deceived?
\VS{3}I
thought
in
my
heart,
to withdraw
my
flesh
from
wine,
that
I
might turn
my
mind
to
wisdom,
and
might avoid
folly,
till
I
might
see
what
was profitable
for
the
children
of
men:
and
what
they ought
to
do
under
the sun,
all
the
days
of
their
life.
\VS{4}I
made
me
great
works, I
built
me
houses,
and
planted
vineyards,
\VS{5}I
made
gardens,
and orchards,
and
set
them
with
trees
of
all
kinds,
\VS{6}And
I
made
me
ponds
of
water,
to
water therewith
the
wood
of
the young
trees,
\VS{7}I got
me menservants,
and
maidservants,
and
had
a great
family:
and
herds
of
oxen,
and great
flocks
of
sheep,
above
all
that
were
before
me
in
Jerusalem:
\VS{8}I heaped
together
for
myself
silver
and
gold,
and
the wealth
of
kings,
and
provinces:
I
made
me
singing
men,
and
singing women,
and
the delights
of
the
sons
of
men, cups
and vessels
to serve
to pour
out wine:
\VS{9}And
I surpassed
in riches
all
that
were
before
me
in
Jerusalem:
my
wisdom
also
remained
with
me.
\VS{10}And
whatsoever
my
eyes
desired,
I
refused
them
not:
and
I
withheld
not
my
heart
from enjoying
every
pleasure,
and delighting
itself
in
the
things
which
I
had prepared:
and esteemed
this
my
portion,
to
make
use
of
my
own labour.
\VS{11}And
when
I
turned
myself
to
all
the
works
which
my
hands
had
wrought,
and
to
the labours wherein
I
had laboured
in
vain,
I
saw
in
all
things
vanity,
and vexation
of
mind,
and
that
nothing
was lasting
under
the
sun.
\VS{12}I
passed further
to
behold
wisdom,
and errors
and
folly, (What
is
man, said
I,
that
he
can
follow
the
King
his maker?)
\VS{13}And
I
saw
that
wisdom excelled
folly,
as much
as
light differeth
from
darkness.
\VS{14}The
eyes
of
a
wise
man
are
in
his
head:
the
fool walketh
in
darkness:
and
I
learned
that
they
were
to
die
both
alike.
\VS{15}And
I
said
in
my
heart:
If
the death
of
the
fool
and mine
shall
be
one,
what doth
it avail
me,
that
I
have applied
myself
more
to
the study
of
wisdom?
And
speaking
with
my own
mind,
I perceived
that
this
also
was
vanity.
\VS{16}For
there
shall
be
no
remembrance
of
the
wise
no
more
than
of
the
fool
for
ever,
and
the
times
to
come
shall cover
all
things
together
with oblivion:
the learned dieth
in
like manner
as
the unlearned.
\VS{17}And
therefore
I
was weary
of
my
life,
when
I saw
that
all
things
under
the
sun
are
evil,
and
all
vanity
and vexation
of
spirit.
\VS{18}Again
I
hated
all
my application wherewith
I
had earnestly laboured
under
the
sun,
being
like
to
have
an heir
after
me,
\VS{19}Whom
I
know
not
whether
he
will
be
a
wise
man
or
a
fool,
and
he
shall
have rule
over
all
my labours
with
which
I
have laboured
and
been solicitous:
and
is
there
any
thing
so
vain?
\VS{20}Wherefore
I left
off
and
my
heart renounced labouring
any
more
under
the
sun.
\VS{21}For
when
a
man laboureth
in
wisdom,
and
knowledge,
and carefulness,
he leaveth
what
he hath gotten
to
an idle
man:
so
this
also
is
vanity,
and
a
great
evil.
\VS{22}For
what profit
shall
a
man
have
of
all
his labour,
and vexation
of
spirit,
with
which
he bath
been tormented
under
the
sun?
\VS{23}All
his
days axe
full
of
sorrows
and miseries,
even
in
the
night
he doth
not
rest
in
mind:
and
is
not
this
vanity?
\VS{24}Is
it
not
better
to
eat
and
drink,
and
to shew
his
soul
good things
of
his labours?
and
this
is
from
the
hand
of
God.
\VS{25}Who
shall
so
feast
and abound
with delights
as
I?
\VS{26}God hath
given
to
a
man
that
is
good
in
his
sight,
wisdom,
and
knowledge,
and
joy:
but
to
the
sinner
he hath
given vexation,
and superfluous care,
to
heap
up
and
to
gather
together,
and
to
give
it
to
him
that hath
pleased
God:
but
this
also
is
vanity,
and
a fruitless solicitude
of
the
mind.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}All
things
have
their
season,
and
in
their
times
all
things pass
under
heaven.
\VS{2}A
time
to
be
born
and
a
time
to
die.
A
time
to
plant,
and
a
time
to pluck up
that which
is
planted.
\VS{3}A
time
to
kill,
and
a
time
to
heal.
A
time
to
destroy,
and
a
time
to
build.
\VS{4}A
time
to
weep,
and
a
time
to
laugh.
A
time
to
mourn,
and
a
time
to
dance.
\VS{5}A
time
to scatter
stones,
and
a
time
to
gather.
A
time
to
embrace,
and
a
time
to
be
far
from embraces.
\VS{6}A
time
to get,
and
a
time
to lose.
A
time
to
keep,
and
a
time
to
cast
away.
\VS{7}A
time
to
rend,
and
a
time
to
sew.
A
time
to
keep silence,
and
a
time
to
speak.
\VS{8}A
time
of
love,
and
a
time
of
hatred.
A
time
of
war,
and
a
time
of
peace.
\VS{9}What hath man more
of
his labour?
\VS{10}I
have
seen
the trouble,
which
God hath
given
the
sons
of
men
to
be exercised
in
it.
\VS{11}He hath
made
all
things good
in
their
time,
and hath
delivered
the world
to
their consideration,
so
that
man
cannot
find
out
the
work
which
God hath
made
from
the
beginning
to
the
end.
\VS{12}And
I
have
known
that
there
was
no
better
thing
than
to
rejoice,
and
to
do
well
in
this
life.
\VS{13}For
every
man
that eateth
and drinketh,
and seeth
good
of
his labour,
this
is
the
gift
of
God.
\VS{14}I
have
learned
that
all
the
works
which
God hath
made,
continue
for
ever:
we
cannot
add
any
thing,
nor
take
away
from
those
things
which
God hath
made
that
he
may
be
feared.
\VS{15}That
which hath
been
made,
the
same continueth:
the
things
that
shall
be,
have
already
been:
and
God restoreth
that
which
is past.
\VS{16}I
saw
under
the
sun
in
the
place
of
judgment
wickedness,
and
in
the
place
of
justice iniquity.
\VS{17}And
I
said
in
my
heart:
God
shall
judge
both
the
just
and
the
wicked,
and
then
shall
be
the
time
of
every
thing.
\VS{18}I
said
in
my
heart
concerning
the
sons
of
men,
that
God
would prove
them,
and shew
them
to
be
like
beasts.
\VS{19}Therefore
the
death
of
man,
and
of
beasts
is
one,
and
the condition
of
them
both
is equal:
as
man dieth,
so
they
also
die:
all
things breathe
alike,
and
man hath
nothing
more
than
beast:
all
things
are subject
to
vanity.
\VS{20}And
all
things
go
to
one
place:
of
earth
they
were
made,
and
into
earth
they
return
together.
\VS{21}Who knoweth
if
the
spirit
of
the
children
of Adam
ascend
upward,
and
if
the
spirit
of
the
beasts
descend
downward?
\VS{22}And
I
have
found
that
nothing
is
better
than
for
a
man
to
rejoice
in
his
work,
and
that
this
is
his
portion.
For
who
shall
bring
him
to know
the
things
that
shall
be
after
him?

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
turned
myself
to
other
things,
and
I
saw
the
oppressions
that
are
done
under
the
sun,
and
the
tears
of
the innocent,
and
they
had
no
comforter;
and
they
were
not
able
to resist
their violence, being destitute
of help
from
any.
\VS{2}And
I praised
the
dead
rather
than
the
living:
\VS{3}And
I judged
him happier
than
them
both,
that
is
not
yet
born,
nor hath
seen
the evils
that
are
done
under
the
sun.
\VS{4}Again
I
considered
all
the labours
of
men,
and
I remarked
that
their industries
are
exposed
to
the
envy
of
their neighhour:
so
in
this
also
there
is
vanity,
and fruitless care.
\VS{5}The
fool foldeth
his
hands together,
and eateth
his own
flesh, saying:
\VS{6}Better
is
a handful
with rest,
than both
hands
full
with labour,
and vexation
of
mind.
\VS{7}Considering
I found also
another
vanity
under
the
sun:
\VS{8}There
is
but
one,
and
he hath
not
a
second,
no
child,
no
brother,
and
yet
he ceaseth
not
to labour,
neither
are
his
eyes
satisfied
with
riches,
neither doth
he reflect, saying:
For
whom
do
I labour,
and defraud
my
soul
of
good
things?
in
this
also
is
vanity,
and
a grievous vexation.
\VS{9}It
is
better
therefore
that
two should
be
together,
than
one:
for
they
have
the advantage
of
their society:
\VS{10}If
one
fall
he
shall
be supported
by
the
other:
woe
to
him
that
is
alone,
for
when
he falleth,
he hath
none
to
lift
him
up.
\VS{11}And
if
two
lie
together,
they
shall
warm
one
another:
how
shall
one
alone
be
warmed?
\VS{12}And
if
a
man
prevail
against
one,
two
shall
withstand
him:
a threefold
cord
is
not easily
broken.
\VS{13}Better
is
a
child
that
is
poor
and
wise,
than
a
king
that
is
old
and
foolish,
who knoweth
not
to foresee
for hereafter.
\VS{14}Because
out
of
prison
and chains
sometimes
a
man cometh
forth
to
a
kingdom:
and
another
born
king
is consumed
with poverty.
\VS{15}I
saw
all
men
living,
that
walk
under
the
sun
with
the
second
young
man,
who
shall
rise
up
in
his
place.
\VS{16}The number
of
the
people,
of
all
that
were
before
him
is infinite:
and
they
that
shall
come
afterwards,
shall
not
rejoice
in
him:
but
this
also
is
vanity,
and vexation
of
spirit.
\VS{17}Keep thy
foot,
when thou goest
into
the
house
of
God,
and draw nigh
to
hear.
For
much better
is
obedience,
than
the victims
of
fools,
who
know
not
what
evil
they
do.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Speak
not
any
thing rashly,
and
let
not thy
heart
be
hasty
to utter
a
word
before
God.
For
God
is
in
heaven,
and thou
upon
earth:
therefore
let thy
words
be
few.
\VS{2}Dreams follow
many
cares:
and
in
many
words
shall
be found folly.
\VS{3}If thou hast
vowed
any
thing
to
God, defer
not
to
pay
it:
for
an unfaithful
and
foolish promise displeaseth
him:
but whatsoever thou hast
vowed,
pay
it.
\VS{4}And
it
is
much
better
not
to
vow,
than after
a
vow
not
to perform
the
things
promised.
\VS{5}Give
not thy
mouth
to
cause thy
flesh
to
sin:
and
say
not
before
the
angel: There
is
no providence: lest
God
be
angry
at thy
words,
and destroy
all
the
works
of thy
hands.
\VS{6}Where
there
are
many
dreams,
there
are
many
vanities,
and
words without
number:
but do thou
fear
God.
\VS{7}If thou shalt
see
the oppressions
of
the
poor,
and violent
judgments,
and
justice perverted
in
the
province,
wonder
not
at
this
matter:
for
he
that
is
high hath another
higher,
and there
are others still
higher
than these:
\VS{8}Moreover
there
is
the
king
that reigneth
over
all
the
land
subject
to
him.
\VS{9}A covetous man
shall
not
be
satisfied
with
money:
and
he
that loveth riches
shall reap
no fruit
from
them:
so
this
also
is
vanity.
\VS{10}Where there
are
great riches, there
are
also
many
to
eat
them.
And
what doth
it profit
the
owner,
but
that
he seeth
the riches
with
his
eyes?
\VS{11}Sleep
is
sweet
to
a labouring
man,
whether
he
eat
little
or
much:
but
the fulness
of
the
rich
will
not suffer
him
to
sleep.
\VS{12}There
is also
another grievous
evil, which
I
have
seen
under
the
sun:
riches
kept
to
the hurt
of
the
owner.
\VS{13}For
they
are
lost
with very great affliction:
he hath
begotten
a
son,
who
shall
be
in extremity
of want.
\VS{14}As
he
came
forth
naked
from
his
mother’s
womb,
so
shall
he
return,
and
shall
take
nothing
away
with
him
of
his labour.
\VS{15}A most deplorable
evil:
as
he
came,
so
shall
he
return.
What
then doth
it
profit
him
that
he hath laboured
for
the
wind?
\VS{16}All
the
days
of
his
life
he eateth
in
darkness,
and
in
many cares,
and
in misery,
and sorrow.
\VS{17}This
therefore hath
seemed
good
to
me,
that
a
man
should
eat
and
drink,
and
enjoy
the
fruit
of
his labour, wherewith
he hath laboured
under
the
sun,
all
the
days
of
his
life,
which
God hath
given
him:
and
this
is
his
portion.
\VS{18}And
every
man
to
whom
God hath
given
riches,
and substance,
and hath
given
him power
to
eat thereof,
and
to enjoy
his
portion,
and
to
rejoice
of
his labour:
this
is
the
gift
of
God.
\VS{19}For
he
shall
not
much
remember
the
days
of
his
life,
because
God entertaineth
his
heart
with
delight,

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}There
is
also
another
evil,
which
I
have
seen
under
the
sun,
and
that frequent
among
men:
\VS{2}A
man
to
whom
God hath
given
riches,
and substance,
and honour,
and
his
soul wanteth
nothing
of
all
that
he desireth:
yet
God doth
not
give
him power
to
eat thereof,
but
a
stranger
shall
eat
it
up.
This
is
vanity
and
a
great misery.
\VS{3}If
a
man
beget
a
hundred
children,
and
live
many
years,
and attain
to
a
great
age,
and
his
soul make
no
use
of
the goods
of
his substance,
and
he
be
without
burial:
of
this
man
I pronounce,
that
the untimely
born
is
better
than
he.
\VS{4}For
he
came
in
vain,
and goeth
to
darkness,
and
his
name
shall
be wholly forgotten.
\VS{5}He hath
not
seen
the
sun,
nor
known
the distance
of good
and evil:
\VS{6}Although
he
lived
two
thousand
years,
and hath
not enjoyed
good
things:
do
not
all
make haste
to
one
place?
\VS{7}All
the labour
of
man
is
for
his
mouth,
but
his
soul
shall
not
be
filled.
\VS{8}What hath
the
wise
man
more
than
the
fool?
and
what
the
poor
man,
but
to
go thither,
where
there
is
life?
\VS{9}Better
it
is
to
see
what thou mayst
desire,
than
to
desire
that
which thou canst
not know.
But
this
also
is
vanity,
and presumption
of
spirit.
\VS{10}He
that
shall
be,
his
name
is
already
called:
and
it
is
known,
that
he
is
man,
and
cannot contend
in
judgment
with
him
that
is stronger
than
himself.
\VS{11}There
are
many
words
that
have
much
vanity
in disputing.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}What needeth
a man
to seek things
that
are above
him, whereas
he knoweth not
what
is profitable
for
him
in
his
life,
in
all
the
days
of
his pilgrimage,
and
the
time
that passeth like
a shadow?
Or
who can tell
him
what
shall
be
after
him under
the sun?
\VS{2}A
good name
is
better
than precious ointments:
and
the day
of death
than
the day
of
one’s birth.
\VS{3}It
is
better
to
go
to
the house
of mourning,
than
to
the house
of feasting:
for
in
that
we
are put
in
mind
of
the end
of all,
and
the living thinketh
what
is
to come.
\VS{4}Anger
is better than laughter: because by
the sadness
of
the countenance
the
mind
of
the offender
is corrected.
\VS{5}The
heart
of
the
wise
is where there
is mourning,
and
the
heart
of
fools where there
is mirth.
\VS{6}It
is better
to
be rebuked
by
a wise
man,
than
to
be deceived
by
the flattery
of
fools.
\VS{7}For
as
the crackling
of thorns burning under
a pot,
so
is
the laughter
of
a fool:
now
this
also
is vanity.
\VS{8}Oppression troubleth
the wise,
and
shall destroy
the
strength
of
his
heart.
\VS{9}Better
is
the end
of
a speech
than
the beginning. Better
is
the patient
man
than
the presumptuous.
\VS{10}Be
not quickly angry:
for anger resteth
in
the bosom
of
a fool.
\VS{11}Say not:
What thinkest thou
is
the cause
that former times were
better
than
they
are now?
for this manner
of question
is foolish.
\VS{12}Wisdom
with riches
is
more profitable,
and bringeth
more
advantage
to
them
that see
the sun.
\VS{13}For
as wisdom
is
a defence,
so money
is
a defence:
but learning
and wisdom excel
in
this,
that
they
give life
to
him
that possesseth
them.
\VS{14}Consider
the
works
of
God,
that
no
man
can correct whom
he hath despised.
\VS{15}In
the good
day
enjoy good
things,
and beware beforehand
of
the
evil
day:
for God hath
made
both
the
one
and
the
other,
that
man
may not
find
against
him
any
just complaint.
\VS{16}These
things also
I saw
in
the days
of
my vanity:
A
just
man perisheth
in
his justice,
and
a wicked
man liveth
a
long
time
in
his wickedness.
\VS{17}Be
not
over just:
and
be
not
more wise
than
is necessary, lest thou
become
stupid.
\VS{18}Be
not overmuch wicked:
and
be
not foolish, lest thou die
before thy
time.
\VS{19}It
is good
that thou shouldst hold
up
the
just, yea
and
from
him withdraw
not thy hand:
for
he
that feareth
God, neglecteth nothing.
\VS{20}Wisdom hath strengthened
the wise
more
than ten princes
of
the city.
\VS{21}For
there
is
no
just
man upon earth,
that doth good,
and sinneth
not.
\VS{22}But do
not apply thy
heart
to
all words
that
are spoken: lest
perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.
\VS{23}For thy conscience knoweth
that thou also hast often
spoken evil
of others.
\VS{24}I
have tried all
things
in wisdom.
I
have said:
I
will
be wise:
and
it departed farther
from
me,
\VS{25}Much more than
it
was:
it
is
a great depth, who
shall
find
it
out?
\VS{26}I
have surveyed
all
things
with
my
mind,
to know,
and consider,
and seek
out
wisdom
and
reason:
and
to know
the wickedness
of
the fool,
and
the error
of
the imprudent:
\VS{27}And
I
have
found
a
woman more bitter than death,
who
is
the hunter’s snare,
and
her heart
is
a net,
and
her hands are bands.
He
that pleaseth
God
shall escape
from
her:
but
he
that
is
a sinner,
shall
be
caught
by
her.
\VS{28}Lo
this
have
I
found, said Ecclesiastes,
weighing
one
thing
after
another,
that
I
might
find
out
the account,
\VS{29}Which
yet
my soul seeketh,
and
I
have
not
found
it.
One
man
among
a thousand
I
have
found,
a
woman
among
them all
I
have
not
found.
\VS{30}Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
wisdom
of
a
man shineth
in
his
countenance,
and
the most
mighty
will
change
his
face.
\VS{2}I
observe
the
mouth
of
the
king,
and
the commandments
of
the
oath
of
God.
\VS{3}Be
not hasty
to depart
from
his
face,
and
do
not
continue
in
an
evil
work:
for
he
will
do
all
that pleaseth
him:
\VS{4}And
his
word
is full
of power: neither
can any man
say
to
him:
Why dost thou
so?
\VS{5}He
that keepeth
the
commandments
shall
find
no
evil.
The
heart
of
a
wise
man understandeth
time
and
answer.
\VS{6}There
is
a
time
and opportunity
for
every business,
and
great affliction
for
man:
\VS{7}Because
he
is ignorant
of
things past,
and
things
to
come
he
cannot
know
by
any
messenger.
\VS{8}It
is
not
in
man’s power
to
stop
the
spirit,
neither hath
he power
in
the
day
of
death,
neither
is
he suffered
to rest
when
war
is
at hand,
neither
shall
wickedness
save
the
wicked.
\VS{9}All
these
things
I
have
considered,
and
applied
my
heart
to
all
the
works
that
are
done
under
the
sun.
Sometimes
one
man ruleth
over
another
to
his own hurt.
\VS{10}I
saw
the
wicked
buried:
who
also
when
they
were
yet
living
were
in
the
holy
place,
and
were praised
in
the
city
as
men
of
just
works:
but
this
also
is
vanity.
\VS{11}For
because
sentence
is
not
speedily pronounced
against
the
evil,
the
children
of
men commit evils
without
any fear.
\VS{12}But
though
a
sinner
do
evil
a
hundred
times,
and
by patience
be borne withal,
I
know
from thence
that
it
shall
be
well
with
them
that
fear
God,
who dread
his
face.
\VS{13}But
let
it
not
be
well
with
the
wicked,
neither
let
his
days
be
prolonged,
but
as
a
shadow
let
them
pass
away
that
fear
not
the
face
of
the Lord.
\VS{14}There
is
also
another
vanity,
which
is
done
upon
the
earth.
There
are
just
men
to
whom evils happen,
as
though
they
had
done
the
works
of
the
wicked:
and
there
are
wicked
men,
who
are
as secure,
as
though
they
had
the
deeds
of
the
just:
but
this
also
I
judge most
vain.
\VS{15}Therefore
I commended
mirth,
because
there
was
no
good
for
a
man
under
the
sun,
but
to
eat,
and
drink,
and
be
merry,
and
that
he
should
take
nothing else
with
him
of
his labour
in
the
days
of
his
life,
which
God hath
given
him
under
the
sun.
\VS{16}And
I
applied
my
heart
to
know
wisdom,
and
to
understand
the distraction
that
is
upon
earth:
for
there
are
some
that
day
and
night
take
no
sleep
with
their
eyes.
\VS{17}And
I
understood
that
man
can
find
no
reason
of
all
those
works
of
God
that
are
done
under
the
sun:
and
the
more
he
shall labour
to
seek,
so
much
the
less
shall
he
find:
yea,
though
the
wise
man
shall
say,
that
he knoweth
it,
he
shall
not
be
able
to
find
it.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}All
these
things
have
I considered
in
my
heart,
that
I
might
carefully
understand
them:
there
are
just
men
and
wise
men,
and
their works
are
in
the
hand
of
God:
and
yet
man knoweth
not
whether
he
be worthy
of
love,
or
hatred:
\VS{2}But
all
things
are kept uncertain
for
the time
to come,
because
all
things equally happen
to
the
just
and
to
the
wicked,
to
the
good
and
to
the
evil,
to
the
clean
and
to
the
unclean,
to
him
that offereth victims,
and
to
him
that despiseth
sacrifices.
As
the
good
is,
so
also
is
the
sinner:
as
the perjured,
so
he
also
that sweareth truth.
\VS{3}This
is
a
very great
evil
among
all
things
that
are
done
under
the
sun,
that
the
same
things happen
to
all
men:
whereby
also
the
hearts
of
the
children
of
men
are
filled
with
evil,
and
with contempt
while
they
live,
and
afterwards
they
shall
be
brought
down
to hell.
\VS{4}There
is
no
man
that liveth always,
or
that hopeth
for
this:
a
living
dog
is
better
than
a
dead
lion.
\VS{5}For
the
living
know
that
they
shall
die,
but
the
dead
know
nothing
more,
neither
have
they
a
reward
any
more:
for
the
memory
of
them
is
forgotten.
\VS{6}Their
love
also,
and
their
hatred,
and
their
envy
are
all
perished,
neither
have
they
any
part
in
this world,
and
in
the work
that
is
done
under
the
sun.
\VS{7}Go
then,
and
eat thy
bread
with
joy,
and
drink thy
wine
with
gladness:
because thy
works
please
God.
\VS{8}At
all
times
let thy
garments
be
white,
and
let
not
oil depart
from thy
head.
\VS{9}Live joyfully
with
the
wife
whom thou lovest,
all
the
days
of thy unsteady
life,
which
are
given
to thee
under
the
sun,
all
the
time
of thy
vanity:
for
this
is thy
portion
in
life,
and
in thy labour wherewith thou labourest
under
the
sun.
\VS{10}Whatsoever thy
hand
is
able
to
do,
do
it earnestly:
for
neither
work,
nor
reason,
nor
wisdom,
nor
knowledge
shall
be
in hell, whither thou
art hastening.
\VS{11}I
turned
me
to
another
thing,
and
I
saw
that
under
the
sun,
the
race
is
not
to
the
swift,
nor
the
battle
to
the
strong,
nor
bread
to
the
wise,
nor
riches
to
the
learned,
nor favour
to
the
skillful:
but
time
and
chance
in
all.
\VS{12}Man knoweth
not
his own end:
but
as fishes
are
taken
with
the hook,
and
as
birds
are
caught
with
the
snare,
so
men
are
taken
in
the
evil
time,
when
it
shall
suddenly
come
upon
them.
\VS{13}This
wisdom
also
I
have
seen
under
the
sun,
and
it
seemed
to
me
to
be
very
great:
\VS{14}A
little
city,
and
few
men
in
it: there
came
against
it
a
great
king,
and invested
it,
and
built bulwarks
round
about
it,
and
the
siege
was perfect.
\VS{15}Now
there
was
found
in
it
a
man
poor
and
wise,
and
he
delivered
the
city
by
his
wisdom,
and
no
man afterward
remembered
that
poor
man.
\VS{16}And
I
said
that
wisdom
is
better
than
strength: how
then
is
the
wisdom
of
the
poor
man slighted,
and
his
words
not
heard?
\VS{17}The
words
of
the
wise
are
heard
in silence, more than
the
cry
of
a prince
among
fools.
\VS{18}Better
is
wisdom,
than
weapons
of
war:
and
he
that
shall offend
in
one,
shall lose
many
good
things.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Dying
flies spoil
the sweetness
of
the
ointment.
Wisdom
and
glory
is more
precious than
a
small
and shortlived
folly.
\VS{2}The
heart
of a
wise
man
is
in his
right
hand,
and
the
heart
of a
fool
is
in his
left
hand.
\VS{3}Yea,
and
the
fool
when
he walketh
in
the
way, whereas
be
himself
is
a
fool, esteemeth
all
men fools.
\VS{4}If
the
spirit
of
him
that hath power,
ascend
upon thee,
leave
not thy
place:
because
care
will
make
the
greatest
sins
to cease.
\VS{5}There
is
an
evil
that
I
have
seen
under
the
sun,
as
it
were
by
an
error proceeding
from
the
face
of
the prince:
\VS{6}A fool
set
in
high dignity,
and
the
rich
sitting beneath.
\VS{7}I
have
seen
servants
upon
horses:
and
princes
walking
on
the
ground
as
servants.
\VS{8}He
that diggeth
a
pit, shall
fall
into
it:
and he
that breaketh
a hedge,
a
serpent shall bite
him.
\VS{9}He that removeth
stones,
shall
be hurt
by them:
and
he that cutteth
trees,
shall
be wounded
by them.
\VS{10}If
the
iron
be blunt,
and
be
not
as
before,
but
be made blunt,
with much labour
it
shall
be sharpened:
and after industry
shall follow
wisdom.
\VS{11}If
a
serpent bite
in silence,
he
is
nothing better
that backbiteth secretly.
\VS{12}The
words
of
the
mouth
of
a
wise
man
are
grace:
but
the
lips
of
a
fool
shall throw
him down headlong.
\VS{13}The
beginning
of
his
words
is
folly,
and
the
end
of
his
talk
is
a mischievous error.
\VS{14}A
fool multiplieth
words.
A
man
cannot
tell
what hath
been
before
him:
and
what
shall
be
after
him,
who
can
tell
him?
\VS{15}The labour
of
fools
shall afflict
them
that
know
not bow
to go
to
the
city.
\VS{16}Woe
to thee, O
land,
when thy
king
is
a
child,
and
when
the
princes
eat
in
the
morning.
\VS{17}Blessed
is
the
land,
whose
king
is noble,
and
whose
princes
eat
in due
season
for refreshment,
and
not
for riotousness.
\VS{18}By slothfulness
a building
shall
be
brought
down,
and
through
the weakness
of
hands,
the
house
shall drop
through.
\VS{19}For
laughter
they
make
bread,
and
wine
that
the
living
may feast:
and
all
things
obey
money.
\VS{20}Detract
not
the
king,
no
not
in thy
thought;
and
speak
not evil
of
the
rich
man
in thy private
chamber:
because
even
the
birds
of
the air
will carry thy
voice,
and
he
that hath
wings
will
tell
what thou hast
said.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Cast thy
bread
upon
the running
waters:
for
after
a
long
time thou shalt
find
it
again.
\VS{2}Give
a
portion
to
seven,
and
also
to
eight:
for thou knowest
not
what
evil
shall
be
upon
the
earth.
\VS{3}If
the
clouds
be
full,
they
will pour
out
rain
upon
the
earth.
If
the
tree
fall
to
the
south,
or
to
the
north,
in
what
place soever
it
shall
fall,
there
shall
it
be.
\VS{4}He
that observeth
the
wind,
shall
not
sow:
and
he
that considereth
the
clouds,
shall
never
reap.
\VS{5}As thou knowest
not
what
is
the
way
of
the
spirit,
nor
how
the
bones
are joined together
in
the
womb
of
her
that
is
with child:
so thou knowest
not
the
works
of
God,
who
is
the maker
of
all.
\VS{6}In
the
morning
sow thy
seed,
and
In
the
evening
let
not thy
hand
cease:
for thou knowest
not
which
may
rather spring
up,
this
or
that:
and
if
both
together,
it
shall
be
the
better.
\VS{7}The
light
is
sweet,
and
it
is delightful
for
the
eyes
to
see
the
sun.
\VS{8}If
a
man
live
many
years,
and
have
rejoiced
in
them
all,
he
must
remember
the darksome
time,
and
the
many
days: which
when
they
shall
come,
the
things past
shall
be accused
of
vanity.
\VS{9}Rejoice
therefore,
O
young
man,
in thy
youth,
and
let thy
heart
be
in
that
which
is
good
in
the
days
of thy
youth,
and
walk
in
the
ways
of thy
heart,
and
in
the
sight
of thy
eyes:
and
know
that
for
all
these
God
will
bring thee
into
judgment.
\VS{10}Remove anger
from thy
heart,
and
put
away
evil
from thy
flesh.
For
youth
and pleasure
are
vain.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Remember thy Creator
in
the
days
of thy
youth,
before
the
time
of affliction
come,
and
the
years
draw nigh
of
which thou shalt
say:
They please
me
not:
\VS{2}Before
the
sun,
and
the
light,
and
the
moon,
and
the
stars
be
darkened,
and
the
clouds
return
after
the
rain:
\VS{3}When
the
keepers
of
the
house
shall
tremble,
and
the
strong
men
shall stagger,
and
the grinders
shall
be
idle
in
a
small number,
and
they
that
look
through
the holes
shall
be
darkened:
\VS{4}And
they shall
shut
the
doors
in
the
street,
when
the grinder’s
voice shall
be
low,
and
they shall
rise
up
at
the
voice
of
the
bird,
and
all
the
daughters
of
music shall grow deaf.
\VS{5}And
they
shall
fear
high things,
and
they
shall
be
afraid
in
the
way,
the
almond
tree
shall flourish,
the
locust
shall
be
made fat,
and
the caper
tree
shall
be
destroyed:
because
man
shall
go
into
the
house
of
his
eternity,
and
the
mourners
shall
go
round
about
in
the
street.
\VS{6}Before
the
silver
cord
be
broken,
and
the
golden fillet shrink
back,
and
the
pitcher
be
crushed
at
the fountain,
and
the
wheel
be
broken
upon
the
cistern,
\VS{7}And
the
dust
return
into
its
earth,
from whence
it
was,
and
the
spirit
return
to
God,
who
gave
it.
\VS{8}Vanity
of
vanities,
said Ecclesiastes,
and
all
things are
vanity.
\VS{9}And whereas Ecclesiastes
was very
wise,
he
taught
the
people,
and declared
the
things
that
he
had
done:
and seeking
out,
he set forth
many
parables.
\VS{10}He
sought profitable
words,
and
wrote
words most
right,
and full
of
truth.
\VS{11}The
words
of
the
wise
are
as goads,
and
as nails deeply
fastened
in,
which
by
the
counsel
of
masters
are
given
from
one
shepherd.
\VS{12}More
than
these,
my
son, require
not.
Of
making
many
books
there
is
no
end:
and
much
study
is
an affliction
of
the
flesh.
\VS{13}Let
us
all
hear together
the conclusion
of
the discourse.
Fear
God,
and
keep
his
commandments:
for
this
is
all
man:
\VS{14}And
all
things
that
are
done,
God
will
bring
into
judgment
for
every error,
whether
it
be
good
or
evil.
\par }