1:1 The words of [it]: the eye is the Preacher, the not satisfied son of David, with seeing, nor king in the ear filled Jerusalem. with hearing. 1:2 Vanity of 1:9 The thing vanities, saith that hath been, the Preacher, it [is that] vanity of which shall be; vanities; all and that which is [is] vanity. done [is] that 1:3 What profit which shall be hath a man of all done: and [there his labour which is] no new he taketh under [thing] under the the sun? sun. 1:4 [One] 1:10 Is there generation [any] thing passeth away, and whereof it may be [another] said, See, this generation [is] new? it hath cometh: but the been already of earth abideth for old time, which ever. was before us. 1:5 The sun also 1:11 [There is] ariseth, and the no remembrance of sun goeth down, former [things]; and hasteth to neither shall his place where there be [any] he arose. remembrance of 1:6 The wind [things] that are goeth toward the to come with south, and [those] that turneth about shall come after. unto the north; it whirleth about 1:12 I the continually, and Preacher was king the wind over Israel in returneth again Jerusalem. according to his 1:13 And I gave circuits. my heart to seek 1:7 All the and search out by rivers run into wisdom concerning the sea; yet the all [things] that sea [is] not are done under full; unto the heaven: this sore place from whence travail hath God the rivers come, given to the sons thither they of man to be return again. exercised 1:8 All things therewith. [are] full of 1:14 I have seen labour; man all the works cannot utter that are done under the sun; it? and, behold, all 2:3 I sought in [is] vanity and mine heart to vexation of give myself unto spirit. wine, yet 1:15 [That which acquainting mine is] crooked heart with cannot be made wisdom; and to straight: and lay hold on that which is folly, till I wanting cannot be might see what numbered. [was] that good 1:16 I communed for the sons of with mine own men, which they heart, saying, should do under Lo, I am come to the heaven all great estate, and the days of their have gotten more life. wisdom than all 2:4 I made me [they] that have great works; I been before me in builded me Jerusalem: yea, houses; I planted my heart had me vineyards: great experience 2:5 I made me of wisdom and gardens and knowledge. orchards, and I 1:17 And I gave planted trees in my heart to know them of all [kind wisdom, and to of] fruits: know madness and 2:6 I made me folly: I pools of water, perceived that to water this also is therewith the vexation of wood that spirit. bringeth forth 1:18 For in much trees: wisdom [is] much 2:7 I got [me] grief: and he servants and that increaseth maidens, and had knowledge servants born in increaseth my house; also I sorrow. had great 2:1 I said in possessions of mine heart, Go to great and small now, I will prove cattle above all thee with mirth, that were in therefore enjoy Jerusalem before pleasure: and, me: behold, this also 2:8 I gathered [is] vanity. me also silver 2:2 I said of and gold, and the laughter, [It is] peculiar treasure mad: and of of kings and of mirth, What doeth the provinces: I gat me men done. singers and women 2:13 Then I saw singers, and the that wisdom delights of the excelleth folly, sons of men, [as] as far as light musical excelleth instruments, and darkness. that of all 2:14 The wise sorts. man's eyes [are] 2:9 So I was in his head; but great, and the fool walketh increased more in darkness: and than all that I myself were before me in perceived also Jerusalem: also that one event my wisdom happeneth to them remained with me. all. 2:15 Then said I 2:10 And in my heart, As whatsoever mine it happeneth to eyes desired I the fool, so it kept not from happeneth even to them, I withheld me; and why was I not my heart from then more wise? any joy; for my Then I said in my heart rejoiced in heart, that this all my labour: also [is] vanity. and this was my portion of all my 2:16 For [there labour. is] no 2:11 Then I remembrance of looked on all the the wise more works that my than of the fool hands had for ever; seeing wrought, and on that which now the labour that I [is] in the days had laboured to to come shall all do: and, behold, be forgotten. And all [was] vanity how dieth the and vexation of wise [man]? as spirit, and the fool. [there was] no 2:17 Therefore I profit under the hated life; sun. because the work 2:12 And I that is wrought turned myself to under the sun behold wisdom, [is] grievous and madness, and unto me: for all folly: for what [is] vanity and [can] the man vexation of [do] that cometh spirit. after the king? 2:18 Yea, I [even] that which hated all my hath been already labour which I had taken under taketh not rest the sun: because in the night. I should leave it This is also unto the man that vanity. shall be after 2:24 [There is] me. nothing better 2:19 And who for a man, [than] knoweth whether that he should he shall be a eat and drink, wise [man] or a and [that] he fool? yet shall should make his he have rule over soul enjoy good all my labour in his labour. wherein I have This also I saw, laboured, and that it [was] wherein I have from the hand of showed myself God. wise under the 2:25 For who can sun. This [is] eat, or who else also vanity. can hasten 2:20 Therefore I [hereunto], more went about to than I? cause my heart to 2:26 For [God] despair of all giveth to a man the labour which that [is] good in I took under the his sight wisdom, sun. and knowledge, 2:21 For there and joy: but to is a man whose the sinner he labour [is] in giveth travail, wisdom, and in to gather and to knowledge, and in heap up, that he equity; yet to a may give to [him man that hath not that is] good laboured therein before God. This shall he leave it also [is] vanity [for] his and vexation of portion. This spirit. also [is] vanity 3:1 To every and a great evil. [thing there is] a season, and a 2:22 For what time to every hath man of all purpose under the his labour, and heaven: of the vexation 3:2 A time to be of his heart, born, and a time wherein he hath to die; a time to laboured under plant, and a time the sun? to pluck up [that 2:23 For all his which is] days [are] planted; sorrows, and his 3:3 A time to travail grief; kill, and a time yea, his heart to heal; a time to break down, end. and a time to 3:12 I know that build up; [there is] no 3:4 A time to good in them, but weep, and a time for [a man] to to laugh; a time rejoice, and to to mourn, and a do good in his time to dance; life. 3:5 A time to 3:13 And also cast away stones, that every man and a time to should eat and gather stones drink, and enjoy together; a time the good of all to embrace, and a his labour, it time to refrain [is] the gift of from embracing; God. 3:6 A time to 3:14 I know get, and a time that, whatsoever to lose; a time God doeth, it to keep, and a shall be for time to cast ever: nothing can away; be put to it, nor 3:7 A time to any thing taken rend, and a time from it: and God to sew; a time to doeth [it], that keep silence, and [men] should fear a time to speak; before him. 3:8 A time to 3:15 That which love, and a time hath been is now; to hate; a time and that which is of war, and a to be hath time of peace. already been; and 3:9 What profit God requireth hath he that that which is worketh in that past. wherein he 3:16 And laboureth? moreover I saw 3:10 I have seen under the sun the the travail, place of which God hath judgment, [that] given to the sons wickedness [was] of men to be there; and the exercised in it. place of 3:11 He hath righteousness, made every [that] iniquity [thing] beautiful [was] there. in his time: also 3:17 I said in he hath set the mine heart, God world in their shall judge the heart, so that no righteous and the man can find out wicked: for the work that God [there is] a time maketh from the there for every beginning to the purpose and for every work. considered all 3:18 I said in the oppressions mine heart that are done concerning the under the sun: estate of the and behold the sons of men, that tears of [such as God might were] oppressed, manifest them, and they had no and that they comforter; and on might see that the side of their they themselves oppressors [there are beasts. was] power; but 3:19 For that they had no which befalleth comforter. the sons of men 4:2 Wherefore I befalleth beasts; praised the dead even one thing which are already befalleth them: dead more than as the one dieth, the living which so dieth the are yet alive. other; yea, they 4:3 Yea, better have all one [is he] than both breath; so that a they, which hath man hath no not yet been, who preeminence above hath not seen the a beast: for all evil work that is [is] vanity. done under the 3:20 All go unto sun. one place; all 4:4 Again, I are of the dust, considered all and all turn to travail, and dust again. every right work, 3:21 Who knoweth that for this a the spirit of man man is envied of that goeth his neighbour. upward, and the This [is] also spirit of the vanity and beast that goeth vexation of downward to the spirit. earth? 4:5 The fool 3:22 Wherefore I foldeth his hands perceive that together, and [there is] eateth his own nothing better, flesh. than that a man 4:6 Better [is] should rejoice in an handful [with] his own works; quietness, than for that [is] his both the hands portion: for who full [with] shall bring him travail and to see what shall vexation of be after him? spirit. 4:1 So I 4:7 Then I returned, and returned, and I saw vanity under be admonished. the sun. 4:14 For out of 4:8 There is one prison he cometh [alone], and to reign; whereas [there is] not a also [he that is] second; yea, he born in his hath neither kingdom becometh child nor poor. brother: yet [is 4:15 I there] no end of considered all all his labour; the living which neither is his walk under the eye satisfied sun, with the with riches; second child that neither [saith shall stand up in he], For whom do his stead. I labour, and 4:16 [There is] bereave my soul no end of all the of good? This people, [even] of [is] also vanity, all that have yea, it [is] a been before them: sore travail. they also that 4:9 Two [are] come after shall better than one; not rejoice in because they have him. Surely this a good reward for also [is] vanity their labour. and vexation of 4:10 For if they spirit. fall, the one 5:1 Keep thy will lift up his foot when thou fellow: but woe goest to the to him [that is] house of God, and alone when he be more ready to falleth; for [he hear, than to hath] not another give the to help him up. sacrifice of 4:11 Again, if fools: for they two lie together, consider not that then they have they do evil. heat: but how can 5:2 Be not rash one be warm with thy mouth, [alone]? and let not thine 4:12 And if one heart be hasty to prevail against utter [any] thing him, two shall before God: for withstand him; God [is] in and a threefold heaven, and thou cord is not upon earth: quickly broken. therefore let thy 4:13 Better [is] words be few. a poor and a wise 5:3 For a dream child than an old cometh through and foolish king, the multitude of who will no more business; and a fool's voice [is profit of the known] by earth is for all: multitude of the king words. [himself] is 5:4 When thou served by the vowest a vow unto field. God, defer not to 5:10 He that pay it; for [he loveth silver hath] no pleasure shall not be in fools: pay satisfied with that which thou silver; nor he hast vowed. that loveth 5:5 Better [is abundance with it] that thou increase: this shouldest not [is] also vanity. vow, than that thou shouldest 5:11 When goods vow and not pay. increase, they 5:6 Suffer not are increased thy mouth to that eat them: cause thy flesh and what good [is to sin; neither there] to the say thou before owners thereof, the angel, that saving the it [was] an beholding [of error: wherefore them] with their should God be eyes? angry at thy 5:12 The sleep voice, and of a labouring destroy the work man [is] sweet, of thine hands? whether he eat 5:7 For in the little or much: multitude of but the abundance dreams and many of the rich will words [there are] not suffer him to also [divers] sleep. vanities: but 5:13 There is a fear thou God. sore evil [which] 5:8 If thou I have seen under seest the the sun, oppression of the [namely], riches poor, and violent kept for the perverting of owners thereof to judgment and their hurt. justice in a 5:14 But those province, marvel riches perish by not at the evil travail: and matter: for [he he begetteth a that is] higher son, and [there than the highest is] nothing in regardeth; and his hand. [there be] higher 5:15 As he came than they. forth of his 5:9 Moreover the mother's womb, naked shall he shall not much return to go as remember the days he came, and of his life; shall take because God nothing of his answereth [him] labour, which he in the joy of his may carry away in heart. his hand. 6:1 There is an 5:16 And this evil which I have also [is] a sore seen under the evil, [that] in sun, and it [is] all points as he common among men: came, so shall he go: and what 6:2 A man to profit hath he whom God hath that hath given riches, laboured for the wealth, and wind? honour, so that 5:17 All his he wanteth days also he nothing for his eateth in soul of all that darkness, and [he he desireth, yet hath] much sorrow God giveth him and wrath with not power to eat his sickness. thereof, but a 5:18 Behold stranger eateth [that] which I it: this [is] have seen: [it vanity, and it is] good and [is] an evil comely [for one] disease. to eat and to 6:3 If a man drink, and to beget an hundred enjoy the good of [children], and all his labour live many years, that he taketh so that the days under the sun all of his years be the days of his many, and his life, which God soul be not giveth him: for filled with good, it [is] his and also [that] portion. he have no 5:19 Every man burial; I say, also to whom God [that] an hath given riches untimely birth and wealth, and [is] better than hath given him he. power to eat 6:4 For he thereof, and to cometh in with take his portion, vanity, and and to rejoice in departeth in his labour; this darkness, and his [is] the gift of name shall be God. covered with 5:20 For he darkness. 6:5 Moreover he the days of his hath not seen the vain life which sun, nor known he spendeth as a [any thing]: this shadow? for who hath more rest can tell a man than the other. what shall be 6:6 Yea, though after him under he live a the sun? thousand years 7:1 A good name twice [told], yet [is] better than hath he seen no precious good: do not all ointment; and the go to one place? day of death than 6:7 All the the day of one's labour of man birth. [is] for his 7:2 [It is] mouth, and yet better to go to the appetite is the house of not filled. mourning, than to 6:8 For what go to the house hath the wise of feasting: for more than the that [is] the end fool? what hath of all men; and the poor, that the living will knoweth to walk lay [it] to his before the heart. living? 7:3 Sorrow [is] 6:9 Better [is] better than the sight of the laughter: for by eyes than the the sadness of wandering of the the countenance desire: this [is] the heart is made also vanity and better. vexation of 7:4 The heart of spirit. the wise [is] in 6:10 That which the house of hath been is mourning; but the named already, heart of fools and it is known [is] in the house that it [is] man: of mirth. neither may he 7:5 [It is] contend with him better to hear that is mightier the rebuke of the than he. wise, than for a 6:11 Seeing man to hear the there be many song of fools. things that 7:6 For as the increase vanity, crackling of what [is] man the thorns under a better? pot, so [is] the 6:12 For who laughter of the knoweth what [is] fool: this also good for man in [is] vanity. [this] life, all 7:7 Surely oppression maketh joyful, but in a wise man mad; the day of and a gift adversity destroyeth the consider: God heart. also hath set the 7:8 Better [is] one over against the end of a the other, to the thing than the end that man beginning should find thereof: [and] nothing after the patient in him. spirit [is] 7:15 All better than the [things] have I proud in spirit. seen in the days 7:9 Be not hasty of my vanity: in thy spirit to there is a just be angry: for [man] that anger resteth in perisheth in his the bosom of righteousness, fools. and there is a 7:10 Say not wicked [man] that thou, What is prolongeth [his [the cause] that life] in his the former days wickedness. were better than 7:16 Be not these? for thou righteous over dost not inquire much; neither wisely concerning make thyself over this. wise: why 7:11 Wisdom [is] shouldest thou good with an destroy thyself? inheritance: and 7:17 Be not over [by it there is] much wicked, profit to them neither be thou that see the sun. foolish: why shouldest thou 7:12 For wisdom die before thy [is] a defence, time? [and] money [is] 7:18 [It is] a defence: but good that thou the excellency of shouldest take knowledge [is, hold of this; that] wisdom yea, also from giveth life to this withdraw not them that have thine hand: for it. he that feareth 7:13 Consider God shall come the work of God: forth of them for who can make all. [that] straight, 7:19 Wisdom which he hath strengtheneth the made crooked? wise more than 7:14 In the day ten mighty [men] of prosperity be which are in the city. 7:27 Behold, 7:20 For [there this have I is] not a just found, saith the man upon earth, preacher, that doeth good, [counting] one by and sinneth not. one, to find out 7:21 Also take the account: no heed unto all 7:28 Which yet words that are my soul seeketh, spoken; lest thou but I find not: hear thy servant one man among a curse thee: thousand have I 7:22 For found; but a oftentimes also woman among all thine own heart those have I not knoweth that thou found. thyself likewise 7:29 Lo, this hast cursed only have I others. found, that God 7:23 All this hath made man have I proved by upright; but they wisdom: I said, I have sought out will be wise; but many inventions. it [was] far from 8:1 Who [is] as me. the wise [man]? 7:24 That which and who knoweth is far off, and the exceeding deep, interpretation of who can find it a thing? a man's out? wisdom maketh his 7:25 I applied face to shine, mine heart to and the boldness know, and to of his face shall search, and to be changed. seek out wisdom, 8:2 I [counsel and the reason thee] to keep the [of things], and king's to know the commandment, and wickedness of [that] in regard folly, even of of the oath of foolishness [and] God. madness: 8:3 Be not hasty 7:26 And I find to go out of his more bitter than sight: stand not death the woman, in an evil thing; whose heart [is] for he doeth snares and nets, whatsoever [and] her hands pleaseth him. [as] bands: whoso 8:4 Where the pleaseth God word of a king shall escape from [is, there is] her; but the power: and who sinner shall be may say unto him, taken by her. What doest thou? 8:5 Whoso from the place of keepeth the the holy, and commandment shall they were feel no evil forgotten in the thing: and a wise city where they man's heart had so done: this discerneth both [is] also vanity. time and judgment. 8:11 Because 8:6 Because to sentence against every purpose an evil work is there is time and not executed judgment, speedily, therefore the therefore the misery of man heart of the sons [is] great upon of men is fully him. set in them to do 8:7 For he evil. knoweth not that 8:12 Though a which shall be: sinner do evil an for who can tell hundred times, him when it shall and his [days] be be? prolonged, yet 8:8 [There is] surely I know no man that hath that it shall be power over the well with them spirit to retain that fear God, the spirit; which fear before neither [hath he] him: power in the day 8:13 But it of death: and shall not be well [there is] no with the wicked, discharge in neither shall he [that] war; prolong [his] neither shall days, [which are] wickedness as a shadow; deliver those because he that are given to feareth not it. before God. 8:9 All this 8:14 There is a have I seen, and vanity which is applied my heart done upon the unto every work earth; that there that is done be just [men], under the sun: unto whom it [there is] a time happeneth wherein one man according to the ruleth over work of the another to his wicked; again, own hurt. there be wicked 8:10 And so I [men], to whom it saw the wicked happeneth buried, who had according to the come and gone work of the righteous: I said the wise, and that this also their works, [is] vanity. [are] in the hand 8:15 Then I of God: no man commended mirth, knoweth either because a man love or hatred hath no better [by] all [that thing under the is] before them. sun, than to eat, 9:2 All [things and to drink, and come] alike to to be merry: for all: [there is] that shall abide one event to the with him of his righteous, and to labour the days the wicked; to of his life, the good and to which God giveth the clean, and to him under the the unclean; to sun. him that 8:16 When I sacrificeth, and applied mine to him that heart to know sacrificeth not: wisdom, and to as [is] the good, see the business so [is] the that is done upon sinner; [and] he the earth: (for that sweareth, as also [there is [he] that feareth that] neither day an oath. nor night seeth 9:3 This [is] an sleep with his evil among all eyes:) [things] that are 8:17 Then I done under the beheld all the sun, that [there work of God, that is] one event a man cannot find unto all: yea, out the work that also the heart of is done under the the sons of men sun: because is full of evil, though a man and madness [is] labour to seek in their heart [it] out, yet he while they live, shall not find and after that [it]; yea [they go] to the farther; though a dead. wise [man] think 9:4 For to him to know [it], yet that is joined to shall he not be all the living able to find there is hope: [it]. for a living dog 9:1 For all this is better than a I considered in dead lion. my heart even to 9:5 For the declare all this, living know that that the they shall die: righteous, and but the dead know not any thing, the grave, neither have they whither thou any more a goest. reward; for the 9:11 I returned, memory of them is and saw under the forgotten. sun, that the 9:6 Also their race [is] not to love, and their the swift, nor hatred, and their the battle to the envy, is now strong, neither perished; neither yet bread to the have they any wise, nor yet more a portion riches to men of for ever in any understanding, [thing] that is nor yet favour to done under the men of skill; but sun. time and chance 9:7 Go thy way, happeneth to them eat thy bread all. with joy, and 9:12 For man drink thy wine also knoweth not with a merry his time: as the heart; for God fishes that are now accepteth thy taken in an evil works. net, and as the 9:8 Let thy birds that are garments be caught in the always white; and snare; so [are] let thy head lack the sons of men no ointment. snared in an evil 9:9 Live time, when it joyfully with the falleth suddenly wife whom thou upon them. lovest all the 9:13 This wisdom days of the life have I seen also of thy vanity, under the sun, which he hath and it [seemed] given thee under great unto me: the sun, all the 9:14 [There was] days of thy a little city, vanity: for that and few men [is] thy portion within it; and in [this] life, there came a and in thy labour great king which thou takest against it, and under the sun. besieged it, and 9:10 Whatsoever built great thy hand findeth bulwarks against to do, do [it] it: with thy might; 9:15 Now there for [there is] no was found in it a work, nor device, poor wise man, nor knowledge, and he by his nor wisdom, in wisdom delivered the city; yet no spirit of the man remembered ruler rise up that same poor against thee, man. leave not thy 9:16 Then said place; for I, Wisdom [is] yielding better than pacifieth great strength: offences. nevertheless the 10:5 There is an poor man's wisdom evil [which] I [is] despised, have seen under and his words are the sun, as an not heard. error [which] 9:17 The words proceedeth from of wise [men are] the ruler: heard in quiet 10:6 Folly is more than the cry set in great of him that dignity, and the ruleth among rich sit in low fools. place. 9:18 Wisdom [is] 10:7 I have seen better than servants upon weapons of war: horses, and but one sinner princes walking destroyeth much as servants upon good. the earth. 10:1 Dead flies 10:8 He that cause the diggeth a pit ointment of the shall fall into apothecary to it; and whoso send forth a breaketh an stinking savour: hedge, a serpent [so doth] a shall bite him. little folly him 10:9 Whoso that is in removeth stones reputation for shall be hurt wisdom [and] therewith; [and] honour. he that cleaveth 10:2 A wise wood shall be man's heart [is] endangered at his right thereby. hand; but a 10:10 If the fool's heart at iron be blunt, his left. and he do not 10:3 Yea also, whet the edge, when he that is a then must he put fool walketh by to more strength: the way, his but wisdom [is] wisdom faileth profitable to [him], and he direct. saith to every 10:11 Surely the one [that] he serpent will bite [is] a fool. without 10:4 If the enchantment; and a babbler is no through idleness better. of the hands the 10:12 The words house droppeth of a wise man's through. mouth [are] 10:19 A feast is gracious; but the made for lips of a fool laughter, and will swallow up wine maketh himself. merry: but money 10:13 The answereth all beginning of the [things]. words of his 10:20 Curse not mouth [is] the king, no not foolishness: and in thy thought; the end of his and curse not the talk [is] rich in thy mischievous bedchamber: for a madness. bird of the air 10:14 A fool shall carry the also is full of voice, and that words: a man which hath wings cannot tell what shall tell the shall be; and matter. what shall be 11:1 Cast thy after him, who bread upon the can tell him? waters: for thou 10:15 The labour shalt find it of the foolish after many days. wearieth every 11:2 Give a one of them, portion to seven, because he and also to knoweth not how eight; for thou to go to the knowest not what city. evil shall be 10:16 Woe to upon the earth. thee, O land, 11:3 If the when thy king clouds be full of [is] a child, and rain, they empty thy princes eat [themselves] upon in the morning! the earth: and if 10:17 Blessed the tree fall [art] thou, O toward the south, land, when thy or toward the king [is] the son north, in the of nobles, and place where the thy princes eat tree falleth, in due season, there it shall for strength, and be. not for 11:4 He that drunkenness! observeth the 10:18 By much wind shall not slothfulness the sow; and he that building regardeth the decayeth; and clouds shall not reap. these [things] 11:5 As thou God will bring knowest not what thee into [is] the way of judgment. the spirit, [nor] 11:10 Therefore how the bones [do remove sorrow grow] in the womb from thy heart, of her that is and put away evil with child: even from thy flesh: so thou knowest for childhood and not the works of youth [are] God who maketh vanity. all. 12:1 Remember 11:6 In the now thy Creator morning sow thy in the days of seed, and in the thy youth, while evening withhold the evil days not thine hand: come not, nor the for thou knowest years draw nigh, not whether shall when thou shalt prosper, either say, I have no this or that, or pleasure in them; whether they both [shall be] alike 12:2 While the good. sun, or the 11:7 Truly the light, or the light [is] sweet, moon, or the and a pleasant stars, be not [thing it is] for darkened, nor the the eyes to clouds return behold the sun: after the rain: 11:8 But if a 12:3 In the day man live many when the keepers years, [and] of the house rejoice in them shall tremble, all; yet let him and the strong remember the days men shall bow of darkness; for themselves, and they shall be the grinders many. All that cease because cometh [is] they are few, and vanity. those that look 11:9 Rejoice, O out of the young man, in thy windows be youth; and let darkened, thy heart cheer 12:4 And the thee in the days doors shall be of thy youth, and shut in the walk in the ways streets, when the of thine heart, sound of the and in the sight grinding is low, of thine eyes: and he shall rise but know thou, up at the voice that for all of the bird, and all the daughters to find out of music shall be acceptable words: brought low; and [that which 12:5 Also [when] was] written they shall be [was] upright, afraid of [that [even] words of which is] high, truth. and fears [shall 12:11 The words be] in the way, of the wise [are] and the almond as goads, and as tree shall nails fastened flourish, and the [by] the masters grasshopper shall of assemblies, be a burden, and [which] are given desire shall from one fail: because man shepherd. goeth to his long 12:12 And home, and the further, by mourners go about these, my son, be the streets: admonished: of 12:6 Or ever the making many books silver cord be [there is] no loosed, or the end; and much golden bowl be study [is] a broken, or the weariness of the pitcher be broken flesh. at the fountain, 12:13 Let us or the wheel hear the broken at the conclusion of the cistern. whole matter: 12:7 Then shall Fear God, and the dust return keep his to the earth as commandments: for it was: and the this [is] the spirit shall whole [duty] of return unto God man. who gave it. 12:14 For God 12:8 Vanity of shall bring every vanities, saith work into the preacher; all judgment, with [is] vanity. every secret 12:9 And thing, whether moreover, because [it be] good, or the preacher was whether [it be] wise, he still evil. taught the people ^Z^Z knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs. 12:10 The preacher sought ~~~~~~