Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

A man of experience discerneth all things well, but whoso hireth a fool, hireth such one as will take no heed.

The slothful hath hid his hand in a dish, He is weary of bringing it back to his mouth.

As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.

Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

Whoever digs a pit [for another man’s feet] will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone [up a hill to do mischief], it will come back on him.

A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.

A wise man seeing the plague will hide himself; as for fools they go on still, and suffer harm.

He hiding her, hid the wind, and he shall call the oil of his right hand.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, [but] those who hate unjust gain will have long days.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

When a ruler giveth heed to the word of falsehood, all his attendants, become lawless.

A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed.

An angry man stirs up conflict,
and a hot-tempered man increases rebellion.

To be a thief’s partner is to hate oneself;
he hears the curse but will not testify.

The righteous abhorreth the ungodly; but as for those that be in the right way, the wicked hate them.

a strutting rooster, a goat,
and a king at the head of his army.

If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.

The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, 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 got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

Whenever I wanted something I had seen, I never refused that desire. Instead, I enjoyed everything I did, and this became the reward in what I had undertaken.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

and who could know whether a, wise man, he would be or a foolish, and yet he would lord it over all my toil, wherein I had toiled and wherein I had acted wisely, under the sun, - even this, was vanity.

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

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

That which was, already, had been, and, that which shall be, already, shall have been, - but, God, seeketh that which hath been chased away.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

So I commended the dead who had already died as being happier than the living who are still alive.

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.

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

For he came out of prison to become king, even though he had been born poor in what would become his kingdom.

There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt;

And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

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.

Here was an evil, I had seen under the sun, - and it is, common, among men:

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

It has not seen the sun nor had any knowledge; yet it has more rest and is better off than he.

And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

For as thorns burn to heat a pot, so also is the laughter of the fool even this is pointless.

The end of a matter [is] better than its beginning; {better to be slow to anger than hot-headed}.

Everything, had I seen, in my days of vanity, - Here was a righteous man, perishing in his righteousness, and there was a lawless man, continuing long in his wickedness.

Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

I turned around and directed my heart to know, to investigate and to seek [skillful and godly] wisdom and the reason for things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness [leading to stupidity and recklessness].

(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

All this, had I seen, and tried to apply my heart to every work which was done under the sun, - at such time as one man had power over another man, to his hurt.

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

Yet is there a vanity upon earth: there be just men, unto whom it happeneth, as though they had the works of the ungodly; Again, there be ungodly, with whom it goeth as though they had the works of the righteous. This me think also a vain thing.

Then extolled I, gladness, in that there was nothing better for a man, under the sun, than to eat and to drink, and to be glad, - since, that, should tarry with him in his toil, for the days of his life which God had given him under the sun.

Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: the righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands.People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.

Every one, was like every one else, one destiny, had the righteous and the lawless, the good and the pure and the impure, and he that sacrificed, and he that did not sacrifice, - as the good man, so, the sinner, he that took an oath, as he who, of an oath, stood in fear.

This was a misfortune in all that was done under the sun, that, one destiny, had they all, - yea also, the heart of the sons of men, was full of wickedness, and, madness, was in their heart, while they lived, and, after that, they went unto the dead.

For, the living, knew that they should die, - -but, the dead, knew not, anything, neither had they any longer a reward, because forgotten was their memory.

Their love, their hate, and their envy have already disappeared, and there is no longer a portion for them in all that is done under the sun.

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

So I turned me unto other things under the Sun, and I saw that in running it helpeth not to be swift; in battle it helpeth not to be strong; to feeding it helpeth not to be wise; to riches, it helpeth not to be suttle; to be had in favour, it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in time and fortune.

Even this, had I seen of wisdom, under the sun, - and, of great import, was the same unto me: -

Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.

Dead flies corrupt sweet ointment and make it to stink. Even so, oft times, he that hath been had in estimation for wisdom and honour is abhorred because of a little foolishness.

Here was a misfortune I had seen under the sun, - a veritable mistake that was going forth from the presence of one who had power:

I had seen, servants, upon horses, - and, rulers, walking like servants, on the ground.

Also from height they shall be afraid, and being dismayed in the way, and the almond tree shall be despised, and the locust shall become a burden, and the caperberry shall fail: for man shall go to his eternal house, and they mourning, went about in the street:

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

Marvel not at me that I am so black: For why? The sun hath shined upon me. My mother's children had evil will at me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

“He has brought me to his banqueting place,
And his banner over me is love [waving overhead to protect and comfort me].

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

O how fair art thou, my love, how fair art thou? Thou hast doves' eyes, beside that which lieth hid within. Thy hairy locks are like the wool of a flock of goats that be shorn on Mount Gilead.

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.

Thou shalt come with me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon: thou shalt go round about from the head of faith, from the head of Shenir and Hermon, from the dwellings of lions, from the mountains of panthers.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

“I had taken off my dress,
How can I put it on again?
I had washed my feet,
How could I get them dirty again?

“I arose to open for my beloved;
And my hands dripped with myrrh,
And my fingers with liquid [sweet-scented] myrrh,
On the handles of the bolt.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

(The Chorus)“Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where is your beloved hiding himself,
That we may seek him with you?”

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

Unto a garden of nuts I went down, To look on the buds of the valley, To see whither the vine had flourished, The pomegranates had blossomed --

“Before I was aware [of what was happening], my desire had brought me
Into the area of the princes of my people [the king’s retinue].”

Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

This thy height was like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters.

Oh that thou hadst been a very brother to me, who had sucked the breasts of my own mother, - Had I found thee without, I had kissed thee, Yea, folk would not have despised me!

I would lead you, and bring you into my mother's house, who had instructed me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? Under theapple tree I awakened you. There your mother had gone into labor with you; there she went into labor and gave birth to you.

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

HEO thou fair dweller in the gardens, the companions are giving heed to thy voice, Let me hear it.

This is the vision that Amoz's son Isaiah had about Judah and Jerusalem during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.