The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.

The man who strays from the way of wisdom
will come to rest
in the assembly of the departed spirits.

The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.

Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty.

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:

For the end is not yet come and thy patient abiding shall not be in vain.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

To those who linger over wine, to those who come to try mixed wine.

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honey-comb, which is sweet to thy taste:

For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?

These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.

Thistles had come up everywhere,
weeds covered the ground,
and the stone wall was ruined.

So shall your poverty come like a robber; and your want like an armed man.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the refiner.

For better it is that it be said unto you, Come up here; than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen.

As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.

He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

Never brag about the day to come, because you don't know what it might bring.

The full soul lotheth a honey-comb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Whoso keepeth his fig tree, shall enjoy the fruits thereof; he that waiteth upon his master, shall come to honour.

When the righteous triumph,
there is great rejoicing,
but when the wicked come to power,
people hide themselves.

Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.

he that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

When the wicked come to power,
people hide,
but when they are destroyed,
the righteous flourish.

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The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.

When the ungodly come up, wickedness increaseth; but the righteous shall see their fall.

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

The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.

For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she laugheth at the time to come.

The wind goeth toward the South and turneth unto the North, fetcheth his compass, whirleth about, and goeth forth and returneth again to his circuits from whence he did come.

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

There is no remembrance of the former generations ; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.

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 my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to greatness, 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.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

Next, I considered wisdom, as well as delusion and folly. What can anyone [do] who will come after the king that has not already been done?

Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

Therefore hated, I, all my toil, wherein I was toiling, under the sun, - in that I should leave it for the man who should come after me;

The thing that hath been, is now; and the thing that is for to come, hath been afore time: for God restoreth again the thing that was past.

All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

and, as better than both, him who had not yet come into being, - who had not seen the vexatious work, which was done under the sun.

A poor child being wise, is better than an old king that doteth, and cannot beware in time to come.

For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Watch your step whenever you visit God's house, and come more ready to listen than to offer a fool's sacrifice, since fools never think they're doing evil.

For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

For with many dreams [come] vanities and numerous words. Therefore, fear God!

The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

Yea, though he lived two thousand years, yet hath he no good life. Come not all to one place?

Because many words lead to pointlessness, how do people benefit from this? 12Who knows what is best for people in this life, every day of their pointless lives that they pass through like a shadow? Who informs people on earth what will come along after them?

Never ask "Why does the past seem so much better than now?" because this question does not come from wisdom.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing that will come after him.

Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?

Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth from them all.

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.

Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

And why? A man knoweth not what is for to come: for who will tell him?

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, [are] in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will [come] to them, whether [it will be] love or hatred.

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

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.

A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;

The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.

Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

But well is thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is come of nobles, and whose princes eat in due season, for strength and not for lust.

Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

Give part sven days, and also upon the eighth, for thou knowest not what misery shall come upon earth.

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

If thou shalt not know for thyself, O fair one among women, come forth for thyself at the heels of the flock, and feed thy kids by the shepherds' tents.

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;

The fig-tree ripeneth her green figs, And the vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

Come! I must arise, and go about in the city, In the paths and in the broadways, I must seek the beloved of my soul, - I sought him, but found him not.

Come out, young women of Zion,
and gaze at King Solomon,
wearing the crown his mother placed on him
the day of his wedding—
the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

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Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes that are newly'shorn, Which are come up from the washing, Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.

Thou art all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, With me from Lebanon: Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions dens, From the mountains of the leopards.

Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honey-comb; honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Awake, north wind, and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow forth. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat its precious fruits.

I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved ones!

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which are come up from the washing; Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.