While I live will I praise the LORD; yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God.

He hath not dealt so with any nation; neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

that they may be avenged of them, as it is written. Such honour have all his saints. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding.

Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse."

Seeing then that I have called, and ye refused it: I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded it,

but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught.

But who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and have enough without any fear of evil."

In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings.

Refuse not to do good unto him that should have it, so long as thine hand is able to do it.

The wise shall have honour in possession, but shame is the promotion that fools shall have.

For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.

My son, why wilt thou have pleasure in a harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woman?

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face, and so I have found thee.

I have decked my bed with coverings and clothes of Egypt.

My bed have I made to smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Cinnamon.

"I, wisdom, have my dwelling with knowledge, and prudent counsel is mine own.

I can give counsel, and be a guide: I have understanding, I have strength.

I have been ordained from everlasting, and from the beginning before the earth was made.

"O come on your way, eat my bread, and drink my wine, which I have poured out for you.

The memorial of the just shall have a good report; but the name of the ungodly shall stink.

The thing that the ungodly are afraid of, shall come upon them; but the righteous shall have their desire.

When the just are in wealth, the city prospereth; but when the ungodly have the rule, it decayeth.

He that is liberal in giving, shall have plenty; and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself.

He that trusteth in his riches shall have a fall; but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Whoso maketh disquietness in his own house, he shall have wind for his heritage; and the fool shall be servant to the wise.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his cattle; but the ungodly have cruel hearts.

He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, is a very fool.

They that imagine evil in their mind, will deceive; but the counselors of peace shall have joy following them.

The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.

Some men are rich, though they have nothing; again, some men are poor having great riches.

Whoso despiseth the word, destroyeth himself; but he that feareth the commandment shall have peace.

Mischief followeth upon sinners; but the righteous shall have a good reward,

which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.

The ignorant have foolishness in possession; but the wise are crowned with knowledge.

A fool despiseth his father's correction; but he that taketh heed when he is reproved, shall have the more understanding.

Better it is to have a little thing with righteousness, than great rents wrongfully gotten.

To have wisdom in possession is better than gold; and to get understanding is more worth than silver.

A discreet servant shall have more rule than the sons that have no wisdom, and shall have like heritage with the brethren.

An unwise body bringeth himself in to sorrow; and the father of a fool can have no joy.

Yea, a very fool, when he holdeth his tongue, is counted wise; and to have understanding, when he shutteth his lips.

Delicate ease becometh not a fool; much more unseemly is it, a bond man to have the rule of princes.

House and riches may a man have by the heritage of his elders; but a discreet woman is the gift of the LORD.

It is a man's honour to keep himself from strife; but they that have pleasure in brawling, are fools every one.

A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.

Delight not thou in sleep, lest thou come to poverty; but open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread enough.

A false witness shall perish; but he that will be content to hear, shall always have power to speak himself.

Have not I warned thee very oft with counsel and learning?

for the LORD himself will defend their cause, and do violence unto them that have used violence.

Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes have pleasure in my ways.

These are also the sayings of the wise. It is not good to have respect of any person in judgment.

Like as in one water there appear divers faces, even so divers men have divers hearts.

The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry.

Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.

Whoso leadeth the righteous in to an evil way, shall fall into his own pit; but the just shall have the good in possession.

He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper; but who so knowledgeth them and forsaketh them, shall have mercy.

Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life, shall be safe; but he that goeth froward ways, shall once have a fall.

He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, shall have poverty enough.

To have respect of persons in judgment is not good: And why? He will do wrong; yea, even for a piece of bread.

Where the righteous have the over hand, the people are in prosperity; but where the ungodly beareth rule, there the people mourn.

He that feareth men, shall have a fall; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall come to honour.

For though I am the least of all, and have no man's understanding

There are people that have a proud look, and cast up their eyelids.

Such is the way also of a wife that breaketh wedlock, which wipeth her mouth like as when she hath eaten, and sayeth, "As for me, I have done no harm."

The grasshoppers have not a guide, yet go they forth together by heaps.

The heart of her husband may safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoils.

She openeth her hand to the poor, yea she stretcheth forth her hands to such as have need

Is there anything, whereof it may be said, "Lo, this is new?" For it was long ago in the times that have been before us.

Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, "Lo, I am come to a great estate, and have gotten more wisdom, than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem." Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge,

Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also:

And look whatsoever mine eyes desired, I let them have it: and wherein soever my heart delighted, or had any pleasure, I withheld it not from it. Thus my heart rejoiced in all that I did, and this I took for the portion of all my travail.

For who knoweth, whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with such wisdom have taken under the Sun. Is not this a vain thing?

For it happeneth unto men as it doth unto beasts, and as the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, they have both one manner of breath, so that - in this - a man hath no preeminence above a beast, but all are subdued unto vanity.

As for the people that have been before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable: yet is not their joy the greater through him. This is also a vain thing and a vexation of mind. (v17) When thou comest into the house of God, keep thy foot and draw nigh, that thou mayest hear: that is better than the offerings of fools, for they know not what evil they do

He that loveth money, will never be satisfied with money: and whoso delighteth in riches, shall have no profit thereof. Is not this also a vain thing?

Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession.

For oft times they perish with his great misery and trouble: and if he have a child it getteth nothing.

For wisdom defendeth as well as money, and the excellent knowledge and wisdom giveth life to him that have it in possession.

These two things also have I considered in the time of vanity: that the just man perisheth for his righteousness' sake, and the ungodly liveth in his wickedness.

All these things have I proved because of wisdom: For I thought to be wise, but she went farther from me than she was before;

Behold - sayeth the preacher - this have I diligently searched out and proved, that I might come by knowledge: which as yet I seek, and find it not.

Among a thousand men I have found one, but not one woman among all.

Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.

For everything will have opportunity and judgment, and this the thing that maketh men full of carefulness and sorrow.

Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.

All these things have I considered, and applied my mind unto every work that is under the Sun: how one man hath lordship upon another to his own harm.

For I have oft seen the ungodly brought to their graves, and fallen down from the high and glorious place; insomuch that they were forgotten in the city where they were had in so high and great reputation. This is also a vain thing.

But though an evil person offend a hundredth times, and have a long life: yet am I sure, that it shall go well with them that fear God, because they have him before their eyes.

Therefore I commend gladness, because a man hath no better thing under the Sun, than to eat and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall he have of his labour all the days of his life, which God giveth him under the Sun.

so that they be neither loved, hated nor envied: neither have they anymore part in the world, in all that is done under the Sun.

This wisdom have I seen also under the Sun, and me thought it a great thing.

Another plague is there, which I have seen under the sun; namely, the ignorance that is commonly among princes:

Whoso removeth stones shall have travail withal; and he that heweth wood, shall be hurt therewith.

Remember thy maker in thy youth, before the days of adversity come, and or the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them";

Marvel not at me that I am so black: For why? The sun hath shined upon me. My mother's children had evil will at me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

So when I was a little past them, I found him whom my soul loveth. I have gotten hold upon him, and will not let him go, until I bring him into my mother's house, and in to her chamber that bare me.

Come into my garden O my sister, my Spouse: I have gathered my Myrrh with my spice. I will eat my honey and my honeycomb, I will drink my wine and my milk. Eat, O ye friends, drink and be merry, O ye beloved.

I have put off my coat: how can I do it on again? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them again?