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CHAPTER 9
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and
their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred
by
all
that is
before them.
2
All
things come
alike to all:
there is
one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and
to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as
is
the
good, so
is
the sinner;
and
he that sweareth, as
he
that feareth an oath.
3
This
is
an evil among all
things
that are done under the sun, that
there is
one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons
of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that
they go
to the
dead.
4
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead
lion.
5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they
any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6
Also their love, and their hatred, and
their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any
thing
that is done
under the sun.
7
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now
accepteth thy works.
8
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
9
Live
joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given
thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that
is
thy portion in
this
life, and in thy labour
which thou takest under the sun.
10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do
it
with thy might; for
there is
no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
11
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 favour to men of skill;
but time and chance happeneth to them all.
12
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; so
are
the sons of men snared
in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
13
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it
seemed
great unto me:
14
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:
15
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.
16
Then said I, Wisdom
is
better than strength:
nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom
is
despised, and his words are not heard.
17
The words of wise
men are
heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
18
Wisdom
is
better than
weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
CHAPTER 10
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour:
so doth
a little folly
him that is in reputation for wisdom
and
honour.
2
A wise man’s heart
is
at his right hand; but a
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