God: no man knoweth wine with a merry heart: either love or hatred by all for God now accepteth thy that is before them.

works.

2 All things come alike to 8 Let thy garments be all: there is one event to the always white; and let thy righteous, and to the wick-head lack no ointment. ed; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that facrificeth, and to him that facrificeth not: as is the good, fo is the finner; and he that fweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the fun, that there is one event unto all yea, alfo the heart of the fons 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 fhall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou loveft all the days of the life of thy vanity which he hath given thee under the fun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takeft under the fun.

10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might: for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wifdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

III returned, and faw under the fun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strang, neither yet bread to the wife, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of fkill: but time and chance happeneth to them all.

12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fifhes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the fnare: so are the fons of men fnared in an

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 un-evil time, when it falleth fudder the fun. denly upon them.

7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy

13 This wisdom have I feen alfo under the fun, and it

feenied

feemed great unto me :
14 There was a little city,
and few men within it; and
there came a great king a-
gainst it, and befieged it,
and built great bulwarks a-
gainst it:

15 Now there was found
in it a poor wife man, and he
by his wifdom delivered the
city: yet no man remem-
bered that same poor man.
16 Then faid I, Wifdom
is better than strength: ne-
vertheless, the poor man's
wifdom is defpifed, and his
words are not heard.

17 The words of wife 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 finner deftroyeth much good.

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CHAP. X.

4 If the spirit of the ruler rife up against thee, leave not thy place: for yielding pacifieth great offences.

5 There is an evil which I have seen under the fun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

6 Folly is fet in great dignity, and the rich fit in low place.

7 I have seen servants upon horfes, and princes walking as fervants upon the earth.

8 He that diggeth a pit fhall fall into it; and whofo breaketh an hedge, a ferpent fhall bite him.

9 Whofo removeth ftones fhall be hurt therewith: and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more EAD flies cause the ftrength: but wisdom is proointment of the apo-fitable to direct. thecary to fend forth a ftinking favour: fo doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. 2 A wife man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

3 Yea alfo, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wifdom faileth him, and he faith to every one that he is a fool.

II Surely the ferpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

12 The words of a wife man's mouth are gracious: but the lips of a fool will fwallow up himself.

13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolifhnefs: and the end of his talk is mifchievous madness.

1 A focl alfo is full of

words:

words: a man cannot tell | be upon the earth.
what shall be; and what
fhall be after him, who can
tell him?

15 The labour of the
foolish wearieth every one of
them, because he knoweth
not how to go to the city.
16 Wo to thee, O land,
T
when thy king is a child,
and thy princes eat in the
morning

17 Bleffed art thou, O land, when thy king is the fon of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for ftrength, and not for drunkenness!

3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth and if the tree fall toward the fouth, or toward the north; in the place where the tree falleth

there it shall be.

4 He that obferveth the wind fhall not fow; and he that regardeth the clouds fhall not reap.

5 As thou knoweft not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even fo thou knoweft not the works of God who maketh all.

6 In the morning fow thy

18 By much flothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.feed, and in the evening with19 A feaft is made forhold not thine hand: for thou laughter, and wine maketh knoweft not whether fhall merry: but money anfwer- profper, either this or that, eth all things. or whether they both fhall be alike good.

7 Truly the light is

20 Curfe not the king, no, not in thy thought; and curfe not the rich in thy bed-fweet, and a pleafant thing it chamber: for a bird of the is for the eyes to behold the air fhall carry the voice, and fun: that which hath wings fhall tell the matter.

8 But if a man live many. years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they fhall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

9 Rejoice, O young ¶ man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk

in

EMEMBER now thy creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou fhalt fay, I have no pleasure in them;

2 While the fun, or the light, or the moon, or the ftars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

and fears fhall be in the way, and the almond-tree shall flourish, and the grafhopper fhall be a burden, and defire fhall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the ftreets:

6 Or ever the filver cord be loofed, or the golden bow! be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

7 Then fhall the duft return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

8 Vanity of vanities, faith the Preacher: all is vanity.

9 And moreover, because the Preacher was wife, he ftill taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and fought out, and set in order many proverbs.

3 In the day when the keepers of the house fhall tremble, and the ftrong men fhall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be dark-was upright, even words of ened, truth.

4 And the doors fhall be fhut in the streets, when the found of the grinding is low, and he fhall rife up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of mufick shall be brought low:

5 Alfo when they fhall be afraid of that which is high,

10 The Preacher fought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written

11 The words of the wife are as goads, and as nails faftened by the mafters of affemblies, which are given from one fhepherd.

12 And further, by these, my fon, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a

weariness

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14 For God fhall bring every work into judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

From the Book of the Prophet ISAIAH.