And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.

When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.

When there is no helping suggestion the people will have a fall, but with a number of wise guides they will be safe.

Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?

When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.

A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.

The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;

And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:

The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.

When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.

When evil men are in power, wrongdoing is increased; but the upright will have pleasure when they see their downfall.

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;

When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?

And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.

And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.

And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.

And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,

For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.

And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.

In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;

And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.

When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.

For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.

So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?