For I was son to my father; tender and only before the face of my mother.

For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.

As I was almost in all evil in the midst of the convocation and the assembly.

From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.

In no depths was I begun; in no fountains abundant in waters.

In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep:

The just one was delivered from straits, and the unjust will come in his stead.

The good shall cause his sons' sons to inherit: and the wealth of him sinning was treasured up for the just.

A heart of joy will do the face good: and by pains of heart the spirit was dejected.

The way of the slothful as the cutting of the thorn: and the path of the upright was raised up.

The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.,

Judgment was prepared for those mocking, and blows for the back of the foolish.

Who shall say, I cleansed my heart; I was pure from my sin?

To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.

They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.

And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown.

The slothful one hid his hand in the dish; he was weary to turn it back to his mouth.

The grass was uncovered and the young herbage was seen; and the green plants of the mountains were gathered.

For three the earth was moved, and for four, which it shall not be able to lift up:

She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread.

Her husband was known in the gates, in his sitting with the old men of the land.

What was, that shall be; and what was done, that shall be done: and not anything new under the sun.

Is there a word will be said, See, this is new? This was already to a long time which was before us.

I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom concerning all which was done under the heavens: this evil business God gave to the sons of man to be occupied in it

It spake with my heart, saying, Behold, I was magnified, and added wisdom over all that were before me at Jerusalem: and my heart saw much of wisdom and knowledge.

And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me.

And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.

And I said in my heart, As the event of the foolish one, also I, it will meet me; and wherefore then was I more wise? And I spake in my heart, This is also vanity.

And who shall know whether he shall be wise or foolish? And he shall have dominion over all my labor which I labored, and was wise under the sun. Also this is vanity.

For what was to man in all his labor, and in the striving of his heart, he labored under the sun?

What was, it is already; and what to be, was already; and God will seek him being driven away.

And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.

And good above them two which were not yet, which saw not the evil work which was done under the sun.

If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.

What was, its name was called already, and it was known that it is man: and he shall not be able to contend with the powerful above him.

Thou shalt not say, Why was it the former days were good above these? for thou didst not ask from wisdom concerning this

All this I proved by wisdom: I said I will be wise, and it was removed far off from me.

What was far off, and the depth, deep, who shall find it?

All this I saw, and giving my heart to every work which was done under the sun: a time which man had power overman for evil to him.

Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.

There is vanity which was done upon the earth; that there is the just which it comes upon them according to the work of the unjust: and there is the unjust, it comes upon them according to the work of the just. I said, Also this is vanity.

According as I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the labor that was done upon the earth: for also in the day and in the night he saw not sleep with his eyes.

And I saw all the work of God, that no man shall be able to find out the work that was done under the sun in whatsoever a man shall labor to seek out, and he shall not find: and also if the wise one shall say to know, he shall not be able to find.

For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten.

Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy perished already; and no more portion to them forever in all which was done under the sun.

Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.

Also this I saw, the wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:

And a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; and not a man remembered that poor man.

And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard.

And also as the foolish one went in the way, his heart was wanting, and he said to all, It is folly.

Folly was given to great heights, and the rich were set in lowness.

And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.

And besides, the preacher was wise; he yet taught the people knowledge; and he gave ear, and sought out, setting in order many parables.

The preacher sought to find words: of delight: and that written was straight, words of truth.

As the apple among the trees of the forest, so my beloved between the sons. In his shadow I delighted, and I sat down, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

He brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me was love.

The flowers were seen in the earth; the time of pruning came, and the voice of the turtle-dove was heard in our land.

I slept and my heart waked: the voice of my beloved knocks at the door; Open to me, my sister, my friend, my dove, my perfect one: my head was filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night

I went down into the garden of nuts to look upon the greens of the valley, to see whether the vine was fruitful, whether the pomegranates blossomed.

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

We will rise early to the vineyards; we will see if the vine was fruitful, the vine blossoms opened, the pomegranates blossomed: there will I give my beloved to thee.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love was strong as death; jealousy hard as hades: its flames, flames of fire, flames of Jehovah.

I am a wall, and my breasts as towers: then was I in his eyes as finding peace.

A vineyard was to Solomon in the place of a multitude; he gave the vineyards to those watching; each shall bring in its fruit a thousand of silver.

And the daughter of Zion was left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a field of cucumbers, as a city besieged.

For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.

Your new moons and your appointments my soul hated; they were for a burden upon me; I was wearied to lift up.

Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil;

How was the faithful city for a harlot! I filled with judgment; justice will lodge in her; and now they are killing

Thy silver was for dross, thy wine adulterated with water.

And the strong was for tow, and his work for a spark, and they two were burnt together, and none quenching.

And it was in the last days, the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be prepared upon the head of the mountains, and lifted up above the hills; and all nations flowed to it

The lofty eyes of man were humbled, and the height of men bowed down, and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled:

And the haughtiness of man was bowed down, and the height of man was humbled: and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

Cease to you from man of whom the breath is in his nose: for in what was he reckoned?

For Jerusalem was weak, and Judah fell: for their tongues and their doings are against Jehovah to embitter the eyes of his glory.

And it was instead of a sweet smell there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of turned work, baldness, and instead of a variegated garment, a girding of sackcloth a brand instead of beauty.

And it was he being left in Zion and he remaining in Jerusalem, he shall say to him holy, all being written for their life in Jerusalem.

I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil:

And now I will make known to you now what I do to my vineyard, taking away its hedge, and it was for consuming, breaking down its wall, and it was for a treading down.

And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not

For this the anger of Jehovah was kindled against his people, and he will stretch forth his hand against them and strike them: and the mountains will be moved and their carcasses shall be as dung in the midst of the streets. In all this his anger was not turned back, and his hand was yet stretched out.

None fainted, and none were weak among them; none shall slumber and none shall sleep; and the girdle of their loins was not loosed, and the thong of their shoes was not broken:

And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.

And yet in it a tenth, and it turned back, and it was for consuming, as the terebinth and as the oak which in casting the trunk in them the holy seed its pillar.

And it will be in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin, king of Aram came up, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to war against her, and he was not able to fight against her.

And it was in that day Jehovah shall hiss for the fly which is in the extremity of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assur.

And it was in, that day a man shall preserve alive a heifer of the herd, and two sheep.

And it was from the abundance of making milk he shall eat curdled milk; for curdled milk and honey shall eat all they being left in the midst of the land.

And it was in that day every place shall be where shall be there a thousand vines for a thousand of silver, for sharp points and thorns shall it be.

And all the mountains which shall be dressed with the hoe, the fear of sharp points and thorns shall not come there: and it was for the sending forth of the ox and for the treading of sheep.

And he went in Judah; and he overflowed and passed through; he will reach even to the neck; and the expansion of his wings was the fulness of the land, God with us.

And he was for a holy place and for a stone of striking, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And passing through it, harshly oppressed and hungry; and it was when he shall be hungry, and they brake forth and cursed against their king and their God, and looked upwards.

For every shoe of the shod with trembling, and a garment being rolled in bloods; and it was for burning the food of fire.

For a child was born to us, a son was given to us, and the dominion shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Captain of Peace.

Aram from the east, and the rovers from behind; and they will eat up Israel with all the mouth. In all this his anger was not turned back, and yet his hand stretched out

In the outpourings of Jehovah of armies the land was consumed, and the people will be as the food of fire: and they shall not pity a man to his brother.