For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted,

a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up,

a time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance,

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against thee, leave not thy place, for deference allays great offences.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up.

and the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low,