LORD will reign forever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye LORD.

Praise LORD, O Jerusalem. Praise thy God, O Zion.

He gives snow like wool. He scatters the hoar-frost like ashes.

Praise ye him, sun and moon. Praise him, all ye stars of light.

fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind, fulfilling his word,

Let Israel rejoice in him who made him. Let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel,

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

My son, walk not thou in the way with them. Restrain thy foot from their path.

My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,

My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

My son, despise not the chastening of LORD, nor be weary of his reproof.

For whom LORD loves he reproves, {and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT)}.

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

For I was a son to my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be many.

My son, attend to my words. Incline thine ear to my sayings.

My son, attend to my wisdom. Incline thine ear to my understanding,

For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbor, if thou have struck thy hands for a stranger,

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou have come into the hand of thy neighbor. Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor.

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

The labor of a righteous man produces life. The fruit of a wicked man [is] to sin.

A ring of gold in a swine's snout, [is] a fair woman who is without discretion.

A wise son [hears] his father's instruction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.

He who is soon angry will deal foolishly. And a man of wicked devices is hated.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

A servant who deals wisely shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brothers.

Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

He who does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.

To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?

A high look, and a proud heart, [even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

The thought of folly is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.

My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste,

My son, fear thou LORD and the king, [and] do not associate with those who are given to change.

For it is better that it be said to thee, Come up here, than that thou should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom thine eyes have seen.

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [is] a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.

He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle. The man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou k

What, my son? And what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows?

She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

The sun also arises, and the sun goes down and hastens to its place where it arises.

That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done. And there is no new thing under the sun.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me. For all is vanity and a striving after wind.

And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?

I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men to be employed therewith.

And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Do not allow thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say thou before the [heavenly] agent, that is was an error. Why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it, this [one] has rest rather than the other.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yea, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.

All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. [There is] a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, has perished long ago, nor have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens t

I have also seen wisdom under the sun this way, and it seemed great to me:

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler:

I have seen servants upon horses, and rulers walking like servants upon the earth.

Happy are thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy rulers feast in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,

And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me. They made me keeper of the vineyards, [but] my own vineyard I have not kept.

Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother has crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, sublime as an army with banners?

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a shed in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.