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was
power; but they had no comforter.
2
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more
than the living which are yet alive.
3
Yea, better
is he
than both they, which hath not yet been, who
hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his
neighbour. This
is
also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5
The fool foldeth his hands together, and
eateth his own flesh.
6
Better
is
an handful
with
quietness, than both the hands full
with
travail and
vexation of spirit.
7
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8
There is one
alone,
and
there is
not a second;
yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet
is there
no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied
with riches; neither
saith he,
For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This
is
also
vanity, yea, it
is
a sore travail.
9
Two
are
better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10
For if they fall,
the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him
that is
alone when he falleth; for
he hath
not another
to help him up.
11
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm
alone?
12
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13
Better
is
a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
14
For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also
he that is
born in his kingdom becometh poor.
15
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in
his stead.
16
There is
no end of all the people,
even
of all that have been before them: they also that
come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also
is
vanity and vexation of spirit.
CHAPTER 5
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the
sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
2
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not
thine heart be hasty to utter
any
thing before God: for God
is
in heaven, and thou upon earth:
therefore let thy words be few.
3
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s
voice
is known
by multitude of words.
4
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it;
for
he hath
no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
5
Better
is it
that thou shouldest
not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin;
neither say thou before the angel, that it
was
an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice,
and destroy the work of thine hands?
7
For in the multitude of dreams and many words
there are
also
divers
vanities: but fear thou God.
8
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a
province, marvel not at the matter: for
he that is
higher than the highest regardeth; and
there be
higher than they.
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