Transgression is at work where people talk too much, but anyone who holds his tongue is prudent.

The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

Anyone who guards his words protects his life; anyone who talks too much is ruined.

The heart of him that hath understanding will neither despair for any sorrow; nor be too presumptuous for any sudden joy.

In hard work there is always profit, but too much chattering leads to poverty.

He that loveth strife, delighteth in sin; and whoso setteth his door too high, seeketh after a fall.

A man of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets;
Therefore do not associate with a gossip [who talks freely or flatters].

The heritage that cometh too hastily at the first, shall not be praised at the end.

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.

Drive out a mocker, and conflict goes too;
then quarreling and dishonor will cease.

Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine
or with those who gorge themselves on meat.

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Do not become a needless witness against thy neighbour, so mightest thou open too wide thy lips:

Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction:

These too are proverbs of Solomon,
which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, copied.

[Like] clouds and wind when there is no rain, [so too is] a man who boasts in a gift of deception.

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Don't set foot too frequently in your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

[Like] cold water upon a weary soul, [so too is] good news from a distant place.

It is not good to eat too much honey
or to seek glory after glory.

A lazy person buries his hands in the dish; he is [too] tired to return it to his mouth.

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

He that is too hasty to praise his neighbour above measure, shall be taken as one that giveth him an evil report.

A faithful man is greatly to be commended, but he that maketh too much haste for to be rich, shall not be unguilty.

He that will be rich all too soon, hath an evil eye; and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Do you see a man who speaks too soon?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Surely I am more brutish and stupid than any man,
And I do not have the understanding of a man [for I do not know what I do not know].

Otherwise, I might have too much
and deny You, saying, “Who is the Lord?”
or I might have nothing and steal,
profaning the name of my God.

Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly; I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.” And behold, it too was futility.

All that my eyes desired, I did not deny them. I did not refuse myself any pleasure, for I took pleasure in all my struggles. This was my reward for all my struggles.

Then I said to myself, “As is the fate of the fool, it will also befall me. Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said to myself, “This too is vanity.”

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

When there is a man whose work was done with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great wrong.

For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Then I looked again and considered all the acts of oppression that were being practiced under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man’s jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

There is a person without a companion, without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches. “So who am I struggling for,” he asks, “and depriving myself from good?” This too is futile and a miserable task.

There is no limit to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Guard your steps and focus on what you are doing as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the [careless or irreverent] sacrifice of fools; for they are too ignorant to know they are doing evil.

Too many worries lead to nightmares, and a fool is known from talking too much.

The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile.

This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?

Better what the eyes see than wandering desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot,
so is the laughter of the fool.
This too is futile.

Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?

Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

Obey the king's command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

In such circumstances, I saw the wicked buried. They came and went from the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they did so. This too is futile.

There is a futility that is done on the earth: there are righteous people who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked people who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

For I have taken all this to heart, exploring and examining it all, how the righteous (those in right standing with God) and the wise and their deeds are in the hands of God. No man knows whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him.

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.

Folly placed in great dignity, - while, the rich, in a low place, took their seat:

The fool {talks too much}, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}?

My son, be careful {about anything beyond these things}. For the writing of books is endless, and too much study {is wearisome}.

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.

He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

(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?”

There are sixty queens and eighty mistresses, and too many young women to count,

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

if I took thee, and brought thee into my mother's house - that thou mightest teach me, and that I might give thee drink of spiced wine and of the sweet sap of my pomegranates.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts, my soul, hateth, - They have become unto me a burden I am too weary to bear:

But thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they go far beyond the east countries in Sorcerers - who they have as the Philistines had - and in calkers of men's births, whereof they have too many.

The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Too bad for them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

Too bad for the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got -- disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got -- cries for help!

I said, "Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies."

And one from the seraphs will fly to me, and in his hand a hot stone, he took with the tongs from off the altar:

And he will touch upon my mouth, and say, Behold, this touched upon thy lips; and took away thine iniquity, and thy sin shall be covered.

This took place during the reign of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah king of Judah: Rezin king of Aram, along with Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, waged war against Jerusalem, but he could not succeed.

For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

Then he said, "Hear, house of David! [Is it] too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?

At that time, the LORD will hire a barber to come from beyond the Euphrates River that is, the king of Assyria and he will shave your heads, your leg hair, and your beards, too.

And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy prey.'

And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

Indeed this is what the Lord told me. He took hold of me firmly and warned me not to act like these people:

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

So the sovereign master was not pleased with their young men, he took no pity on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless and did wicked things, every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

Woe be unto you that make unrighteous laws, and devise things, which be too hard for to keep:

At that time the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.

And peoples took them and brought them to their place, and the house of Israel inherited them upon the land of Jehovah for servants and for maids: and they were captives to those having been made captives, and they came down upon those pressing them.

They all respond to you, saying:
“You too have become as weak as we are;
you have become like us!

In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

For before the harvest, when the flower was completed, and the sour grape shall be ripening in the flower, and he cut off the shoots with pruning-hooks, and cutting off he took away the tendrils.

In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed.

Therefore my loins are filled [with] anguish; pangs have seized me, like [the] pangs of a woman giving birth. I am {too bent to hear}, I am {too dismayed to see}.

Elam took up a quiver
with chariots and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered the shield.

And it came to pass that your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
And the horsemen took their fixed positions [in an offensive array] at the gate [of Jerusalem].

And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.