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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. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 23 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8323.txt or 8323.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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