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And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

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See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.

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There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.

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All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

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And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

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When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

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then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

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But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

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Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.

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I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift `is' the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

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For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

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A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;

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and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!

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For mirth they are making a feast, And wine maketh life joyful, And the silver answereth with all.

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Even in thy mind a king revile not, And in the inner parts of thy bed-chamber Revile not the rich: For a fowl of the heavens causeth the voice to go, And a possessor of wings declareth the word.

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As thou knowest not what `is' the way of the spirit, How -- bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

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In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike `are' good.

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Sweet also `is' the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.

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But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.

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Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'

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And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out -- he made right many similes.

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The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- `Fear God, and keep His commands, for this `is' the whole of man.

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For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'

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Fear me not, because I `am' very dark, Because the sun hath scorched me, The sons of my mother were angry with me, They made me keeper of the vineyards, My vineyard -- my own -- I have not kept.

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If thou knowest not, O fair among women, Get thee forth by the traces of the flock, And feed thy kids by the shepherds' dwellings!

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