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+Title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 23: Ecclesiastes
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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+ECCLESIASTES
+
+This Book is called Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher, (in Hebrew,
+Coheleth,) because in it, Solomon, as an excellent preacher, setteth
+forth the vanity of the things of this world: to withdraw the hearts and
+affections of men from such empty toys.
+
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 1
+
+The vanity of all temporal things.
+
+1:1. The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.
+
+1:2. Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all
+is vanity.
+
+1:3. What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the
+sun?
+
+1:4. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the
+earth standeth for ever.
+
+1:5. The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and
+there rising again,
+
+1:6. 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.
+
+1:7. 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.
+
+1:8. All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is
+not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.
+
+1:9. 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.
+
+1:10. 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.
+
+1:11. 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.
+
+1:12. I Ecclesiastes was king over Israel in Jerusalem,
+
+1:13. 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.
+
+1:14. I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all
+is vanity, and vexation of spirit.
+
+1:15. The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is
+infinite.
+
+1:16. 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.
+
+1:17. 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,
+
+1:18. Because in much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that
+addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 2
+
+The vanity of pleasures, riches, and worldly labours.
+
+2:1. I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy
+good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
+
+2:2. Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly
+deceived?
+
+2:3. 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.
+
+2:4. I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
+
+2:5. I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,
+
+2:6. And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the
+young trees,
+
+2:7. 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:
+
+2:8. 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:
+
+2:9. And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my
+wisdom also remained with me.
+
+2:10. 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.
+
+2:11. 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.
+
+2:12. I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is
+man, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)
+
+2:13. And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth
+from darkness.
+
+2:14. 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.
+
+2:15. 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.
+
+2:16. For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the
+fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with
+oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.
+
+2:17. 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.
+
+2:18. Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly
+laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
+
+2:19. 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 anything so vain?
+
+2:20. Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore
+under the sun.
+
+2:21. 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.
+
+2:22. For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation
+of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?
+
+2:23. All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night
+he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
+
+2:24. 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.
+
+2:25. Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
+
+2:26. 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.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 3
+
+All human things are liable to perpetual changes. We are to rest on
+God's providence, and cast away fruitless cares.
+
+3:1. All things have their season, and in their times all things pass
+under heaven.
+
+3:2. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to
+pluck up that which is planted.
+
+3:3. A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time
+to build.
+
+3:4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to
+dance.
+
+3:5. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace,
+and a time to be far from embraces.
+
+3:6. A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to
+cast away.
+
+3:7. A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a
+time to speak.
+
+3:8. A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of
+peace.
+
+3:9. What hath man more of his labour?
+
+3:10. I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to
+be exercised in it.
+
+3:11. 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.
+
+3:12. And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice,
+and to do well in this life.
+
+3:13. For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his
+labour, this is the gift of God.
+
+3:14. 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.
+
+3:15. That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that
+shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.
+
+3:16. I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in
+the place of justice iniquity.
+
+3:17. And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the
+wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.
+
+3:18. I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would
+prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.
+
+3:19. 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.
+
+Man hath nothing more, etc... Viz., as to the life of the body.
+
+3:20. And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into
+earth they return together.
+
+3:21. Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward,
+and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
+
+Who knoweth, etc... Viz., experimentally: since no one in this life can
+see a spirit. But as to the spirit of the beasts, which is merely
+animal, and become extinct by the death of the beast, who can tell the
+manner it acts so as to give life and motion, and by death to descend
+downward, that is, to be no more?
+
+3:22. 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?
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 4
+
+Other instances of human miseries.
+
+4:1. 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.
+
+4:2. And I praised the dead rather than the living:
+
+4:3. And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor
+hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.
+
+4:4. Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that
+their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this
+also there is vanity, and fruitless care.
+
+4:5. The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh,
+saying:
+
+4:6. Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour,
+and vexation of mind.
+
+4:7. Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:
+
+4:8. 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.
+
+4:9. It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for
+they have the advantage of their society:
+
+4:10. 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.
+
+4:11. And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall
+one alone be warmed?
+
+4:12. And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a
+threefold cord is not easily broken.
+
+4:13. Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old
+and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.
+
+4:14. Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a
+kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.
+
+4:15. I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second
+young man, who shall rise up in his place.
+
+4:16. 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.
+
+4:17. 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.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 5
+
+Caution in words. Vows are to be paid. Riches are often pernicious: the
+moderate use of them is the gift of God.
+
+5:1. 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.
+
+5:2. Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
+
+5:3. 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.
+
+5:4. And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform
+the things promised.
+
+5:5. 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.
+
+5:6. Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words
+without number: but do thou fear God.
+
+5:7. 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:
+
+5:8. Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject
+to him.
+
+5:9. 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.
+
+5:10. 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?
+
+5:11. 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.
+
+5:12. There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the
+sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
+
+5:13. For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a
+son, who shall be in extremity of want.
+
+5:14. As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return,
+and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
+
+5:15. A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then
+doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
+
+5:16. All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares,
+and in misery, and sorrow.
+
+5:17. 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.
+
+5:18. 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.
+
+5:19. For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God
+entertaineth his heart with delight.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 6
+
+The misery of the covetous man.
+
+6:1. There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and
+that frequent among men:
+
+6:2. 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.
+
+6:3. 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.
+
+6:4. For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be
+wholly forgotten.
+
+6:5. He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
+
+6:6. Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good
+things: do not all make haste to one place?
+
+6:7. All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be
+filled.
+
+6:8. What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man,
+but to go thither, where there is life?
+
+6:9. 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.
+
+6:10. He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known,
+that he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is
+stronger than himself.
+
+6:11. There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 7
+
+Prescriptions against worldly vanities: mortification, patience, and
+seeking wisdom.
+
+7:1. 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?
+
+7:2. A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death
+than the day of one's birth.
+
+7:3. 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.
+
+7:4. Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the
+countenance the mind of the offender is corrected.
+
+Anger... That is, correction, or just wrath and zeal against evil.
+
+7:5. The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of
+fools where there is mirth.
+
+7:6. It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by
+the flattery of fools.
+
+7:7. For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the
+laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.
+
+7:8. Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of
+his heart.
+
+7:9. Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the
+patient man than the presumptuous.
+
+7:10. Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.
+
+7:11. Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were
+better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.
+
+7:12. Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage
+to them that see the sun.
+
+7:13. 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.
+
+7:14. Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath
+despised.
+
+7:15. 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.
+
+7:16. 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.
+
+7:17. Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest
+thou become stupid.
+
+Over just... Viz., By an excessive rigour in censuring the ways of God
+in bearing with the wicked.
+
+7:18. Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before
+thy time.
+
+Be not overmuch wicked... That is, lest by the greatness of your sin you
+leave no room for mercy.
+
+7:19. 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.
+
+7:20. Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the
+city.
+
+7:21. For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth
+not.
+
+7:22. But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest
+perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.
+
+7:23. For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil
+of others.
+
+7:24. I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise:
+and it departed farther from me,
+
+7:25. Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
+
+7:26. 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:
+
+7:27. 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.
+
+7:28. Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after
+another, that I might find out the account,
+
+7:29. 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.
+
+7:30. 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?
+
+Of the word... That is, of this obscure and difficult matter.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 8
+
+True wisdom is to observe God's commandments. The ways of God are
+unsearchable.
+
+8:1. The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty
+will change his face.
+
+8:2. I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath
+of God.
+
+8:3. Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an
+evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:
+
+8:4. And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why
+dost thou so?
+
+8:5. He that keepeth the commandment, shall find no evil. The heart of a
+wiser man understandeth time and answer.
+
+8:6. There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great
+affliction for man:
+
+8:7. Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot
+know by any messenger.
+
+8:8. 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.
+
+8:9. 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.
+
+8:10. 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.
+
+8:11. For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil,
+the children of men commit evils without any fear.
+
+8:12. 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.
+
+8:13. 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.
+
+8:14. 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.
+
+8:15. 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.
+
+No good for a man, etc... Some commentators think the wise man here
+speaks in the person of the libertine: representing the objections of
+these men against divine providence, and the inferences they draw from
+thence, which he takes care afterwards to refute. But it may also be
+said, that his meaning is to commend the moderate use of the goods of
+this world, preferably to the cares and solicitudes of worldlings, their
+attachment to vanity and curiosity, and presumptuously diving into the
+unsearchable ways of divine providence.
+
+8:16. 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.
+
+8:17. 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.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 9
+
+Man knows not certainty that he is in God's grace. After death no more
+work or merit.
+
+9:1. 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:
+
+9:2. 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.
+
+9:3. 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.
+
+9:4. There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a
+living dog is better than a dead lion.
+
+9:5. 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.
+
+Know nothing more... Viz., as to the transactions of this world, in
+which they have now no part, unless it be revealed to them; neither have
+they any knowledge or power now of doing any thing to secure their
+eternal state, (if they have not taken care of it in their lifetime:)
+nor can they now procure themselves any good, as the living always may
+do, by the grace of God.
+
+9:6. 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.
+
+9:7. Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with
+gladness: because thy works please God.
+
+9:8. At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from
+thy head.
+
+9:9. 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.
+
+9:10. 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.
+
+9:11. 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 skilful: but time and
+chance in all.
+
+9:12. 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.
+
+9:13. This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to
+be very great:
+
+9:14. 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.
+
+9:15. 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.
+
+9:16. And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the
+wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?
+
+9:17. The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a
+prince among fools.
+
+9:18. Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in
+one, shall lose many good things.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 10
+
+Observations on wisdom and folly, ambition and detraction.
+
+10:1. Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory
+is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.
+
+10:2. The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a
+fool is in his left hand.
+
+10:3. Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself
+is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.
+
+10:4. If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not
+thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.
+
+10:5. There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an
+error proceeding from the face of the prince:
+
+10:6. A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath.
+
+10:7. I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the
+ground as servants.
+
+10:8. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a
+hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
+
+10:9. He that removeth stones, shall be hurt by them: and he that
+cutteth trees, shall be wounded by them.
+
+10:10. 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.
+
+10:11. If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that
+backbiteth secretly.
+
+10:12. The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a
+fool shall throw him down headlong.
+
+10:13. The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a
+mischievous error.
+
+10:14. A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before
+him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
+
+10:15. The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to
+the city.
+
+10:16. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the
+princes eat in the morning.
+
+10:17. Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat
+in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.
+
+10:18. By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the
+weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.
+
+10:19. For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast:
+and all things obey money.
+
+10:20. 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.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 11
+
+Exhortation to works of mercy, while we have time, to diligence in good,
+and to the remembrance of death and judgment.
+
+11:1. Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou
+shalt find it again.
+
+11:2. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not
+what evil shall be upon the earth.
+
+11:3. 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.
+
+If the tree fall, etc... The state of the soul is unchangeable when once
+she comes to heaven or hell: and a soul that departs this life in the
+state of grace, shall never fall from grace: as on the other side, a
+soul that dies out of the state of grace, shall never come to it. But
+this does not exclude a place of temporal punishments for such souls as
+die in the state of grace: yet not so as to be entirely pure: and
+therefore they shall be saved, indeed, yet so as by fire. 1 Cor. 3.13,
+14, 15.
+
+11:4. He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth
+the clouds, shall never reap.
+
+11:5. 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.
+
+11:6. 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.
+
+11:7. The light is sweet, and it is delightful for the eyes to see the
+sun.
+
+11:8. 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.
+
+11:9. 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.
+
+11:10. Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh.
+For youth and pleasure are vain.
+
+Ecclesiastes Chapter 12
+
+The Creator is to be remembered in the days of our youth: all worldly
+things are vain: we should fear God and keep his commandments.
+
+12:1. 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:
+
+12:2. Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be
+darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:
+
+Before the sun, etc... That is, before old age: the effects of which
+upon all the senses and faculties are described in the following verses,
+under a variety of figures.
+
+12:3. 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:
+
+12:4. 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.
+
+12:5. 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.
+
+12:6. 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,
+
+12:7. And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the
+spirit return to God, who gave it.
+
+12:8. Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity.
+
+12:9. 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.
+
+12:10. He sought profitable words, and wrote words most right, and full
+of truth.
+
+12:11. 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.
+
+12:12. More than these, my son, require not. Of making many books there
+is no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh.
+
+12:13. Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear
+God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:
+
+All man... The whole business and duty of man.
+
+12:14. And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for
+every error, whether it be good or evil.
+
+Error... Or, hidden and secret thing.
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org) public repository for
+eBook #8323 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8323)