Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any;

She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

Don't be hasty to go out of his presence. Don't persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't respect man.

Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I."

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil."

The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.

Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

Has a nation changed [its] gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

and say to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed is the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.

Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name:

Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt."

Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in its cities?

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

[It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.

For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?

Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.

Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?

But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,

and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

Yet you say, Why doesn't the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.

Then I said to them, What does the high place where you go mean? So its name is called Bamah to this day.

She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay.

and whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

and whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.

Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree: Haven't you signed an decree, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.