H0853–אֵת–et

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [supplied: and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

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There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

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All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [supplied: there is] a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

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Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor [supplied: all] the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

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When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),

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then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

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For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

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Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

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For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

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Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things.

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Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

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As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, [supplied: nor] how the bones [supplied: do grow] in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.

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In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

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Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

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Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

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Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

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And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, [supplied: and] set in order many proverbs.

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[supplied: This is] the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole [supplied: duty] of man.

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For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

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Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; [supplied: But] mine own vineyard have I not kept.

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If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

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