A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.

The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?

Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

As the cold of snow in the time of grain-cutting, so is a true servant to those who send him; for he gives new life to the soul of his master.

Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

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

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.

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?

Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

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

The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

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.

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

I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

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.

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

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

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

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.

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;

Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

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?

Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.

These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,

For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.

This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.

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:

I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.

Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

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

And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.

Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?