They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.

Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand.

You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.

I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.

I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)

Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.

But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

Give praise to the Lord, all his works, in all places under his rule: give praise to the Lord, O my soul.

By them they were crushed, and made low under their hands.

The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.

What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

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

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.

Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.

His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.

Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.

Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on the west, and together they will take the goods of the children of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon will be under their rule.

Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste place.

It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.

Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;

The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.

You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.

And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.

But as for that nation which puts its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and becomes his servant, I will let that nation keep on in its land, farming it and living in it, says the Lord.

And I said all this to Zedekiah, king of Judah, saying, Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and become his servants and his people, so that you may keep your lives.

In the towns of the hill-country, in the towns of the lowland, and in the towns of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again go under the hand of him who is numbering them, says the Lord.