Your eyes saw my embryo; and in Your book all my members were written, the days they were formed, and not one was among them.

If I should count them, they are more than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.

who devised evil things in the heart; they are always gathered for war.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.

O Jehovah, do not grant the desires of the wicked; do not help his wicked plans, lest they praise themselves. Selah.

Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, so that they do not rise up again.

When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

Keep me from the traps which they have laid for me, and the snares of the workers of evil.

When my spirit fainted within me, then You knew my path. In the way in which I walked they have secretly laid a snare for me.

Hear my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pursuers; for they are stronger than I.

Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

They shall pour forth the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness.

They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom and talk of Your power,

He has not done so with any nation; and they have not known His judgments. Praise Jehovah!

Let them praise the name of Jehovah; for He commanded, and they were created.

for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch secretly for their own lives.

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me;

instead they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Jehovah.

They would have none of my counsel; they despised all my correction,

and they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own desires.

They will deliver you from the strange woman, the stranger who flatters with her words,

All who go in to her do not return, nor do they take hold of the paths of life,

for they shall add length of days, and long life, and peace to you.

and they shall be life to your soul and grace to your neck;

For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to all his flesh.

They do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

They who are of a perverse heart are hateful to Jehovah, but the upright in the way are His delight.

Without wisdom, purposes are defeated, but by many wise men they are established.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks right.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

All the brothers of the poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are lacking.

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

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be fitted in your lips,

Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceitful food.

saying, They struck me; I was not sick; they beat me, but I did not know it. When I awaken, I will add more. I will seek it again.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

When the wicked rise, a man hides himself, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Four things are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;

the rock-badgers are not a mighty people, yet they make their houses in the rock;

the locusts have no king, yet they go forth by bands, all of them;

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

I sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.

And I turned to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king, when they have already done it?

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God does it so that they fear before Him.

I said in my heart concerning the matter of sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

For that which happens to the sons of men also happens to beasts, even one thing happens to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast; for all is vanity.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him.

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

There is no end of all the people, of all who have been before them; they also who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

Lo, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.

And so I saw the wicked buried, and they came and went from the holy place. And they were forgotten in the city, these things that they had done. This is also vanity.

This is an evil among all things that are 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.

For the living know that they shall die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; nor do they any longer have a part forever in all that is done under the sun.

A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty on the earth; and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know what shall be blessed, either this or that, or whether they both shall be fruitful in the same way.

but if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

also they are afraid of the high place, and terrors along the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

The words of the wise are like goads; yes, their collected words are like nails driven home; they are given from one Shepherd.

Do not look on me, that I am black, that the sun has looked on me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my vineyard I have not kept.

They all hold swords, instructed in war; each man has his sword on his thigh because of fear in the night.

Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep, which came up from the washing; they all are bearing twins and not one is barren among them.

The watchmen who went about the city found me and struck me; they wounded me. The keepers of the wall lifted my veil from me.

Turn away your eyes from Me, for they have overcome Me; your hair is like a flock of goats that appears from Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes which go up from the washing; they all are bearing twins, and a barren one is not among them.

But My dove, My undefiled is one alone. She is the only one of her mother. She is the choice of her who bore her. The daughters saw her and blessed her; the queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

Who could give You to me as my brother, who sucked my mother's breasts? When I find You outside, I would kiss You; yea, they would not despise me.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah has spoken, I have nursed and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against Me.

Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward.

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; only a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me; I am weary to bear them.

Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be ashamed for the gardens which you have chosen.

And the strong shall be like tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall put them out.

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

For You have forsaken Your people the house of Jacob, because they have become full from the east, and are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. And they clap their hands with the children of strangers.

And their land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth for fear of Jehovah and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

The look of their faces witnesses against them; and they declare their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it! Woe to their soul! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.

Say to the righteous that it is well; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

And Jehovah says, Because the daughters of Zion are proud, and have walked with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

And the lyre, and the harp, the timbrel, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Jehovah. Yea, they do not see the work of His hands.