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LORD, I thank you with all of my heart; because you heard the words that I spoke, I will sing your praise before the heavenly beings.

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have magnified your word according to all your name.

and they will sing of the ways of Yahweh, because Yahweh's glory [is] great.

Let one who is righteous strike me; It is an act of gracious love. Let him rebuke me, because it is oil for my head; do not let my head refuse it. My prayers continuously will be against their wicked activities.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may celebrate thy name. The righteous shall surround me, because thou dealest bountifully with me.

Because of Your name, Yahweh,
let me live.
In Your righteousness deliver me from trouble,

Because of your gracious love, you will cut off my enemies. You will destroy all who oppose me, for I am your servant. Davidic

Free me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood,

Because our sons are as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,

Let them praise the name of Yahweh, because he commanded and they were created.

let them praise the name of Yahweh, because his name alone [is] is exalted. His splendor [is] above earth and heavens.

Let the godly rejoice because of their vindication! Let them shout for joy upon their beds!

because their feet run toward trouble
and they hurry to commit murder.

because her profit is better than the profit of silver, and her yield than fine gold.

Because I give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go! Guard wisdom, because she is your life!

Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

Because, for the sake of an impure woman, a man may be brought even to a cake of bread, - and, a man's wife, for a precious soul, may hunt!

Listen, because I have noble things to say, and what I have to say will reveal what is right.

because wisdom is better than precious gems and nothing you desire can compare to it."


“Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden];
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

What the righteous person says nourishes many, but fools die because they lack discerning hearts.

The righteousness of the blameless clears his path,
but the wicked person will fall because of his wickedness.

A man is praised because of his wise words, but the perverted mind will be despised.


Abundant food is in the fallow (uncultivated) ground of the poor,
But [without protection] it is swept away by injustice.

A worker’s appetite works for him
because his hunger urges him on.

To punish a righteous man is not good, nor to strike nobles because of their uprightness.

The person who has great anger must pay the consequences, because if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.


The wicked become a ransom for the righteous,
And the treacherous in the place of the upright [for they fall into their own traps].

because a prostitute is a deep pit, and the adulterous woman a narrow well.

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

She feareth not, for her household, because of the snow, for, all her household, are clothed with crimson:


Charm and grace are deceptive, and [superficial] beauty is vain,
But a woman who fears the Lord [reverently worshiping, obeying, serving, and trusting Him with awe-filled respect], she shall be praised.

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

Next I turned to examine wisdom, insanity, and foolishness, because what can a person do who succeeds the king except what has already been accomplished?

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity.

Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

I also examined on earth: where the halls of justice were supposed to be, there was lawlessness; and where the righteous were supposed to be, there was lawlessness. 17I told myself, "God will judge both the righteous and the wicked, because there is a time set to judge every event and every work."

I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?

Better than both of them is someone who has not yet been born, because he hasn't experienced evil on earth.

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.

Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.

Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

When you make a vow to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because He does not delight in fools. Fulfill what you vow.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that 'it is an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Lo, that which I have seen: It is good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it is his portion.

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

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