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EC-9:1 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.
EC-9:2 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.
EC-9:3 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.
EC-9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is
hope: for a
living dog is better than a dead lion.
EC-9:5 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.
EC-9:6 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.
EC-9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine
with a merry
heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
EC-9:8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack
no ointment.
EC-9:9 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.
EC-9:10 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.
EC-9:11 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.
EC-9:12 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.
EC-9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it
[seemed] great
unto me:
EC-9:14 [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:
EC-9:15 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.
EC-9:16 Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength:
nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.
EC-9:17 The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet more than
the cry of him
that ruleth among fools.
EC-9:18 Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner
destroyeth
much good.
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