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Seven [times] in a day I have praised Thee, Because of the judgments of Thy righteousness.

I confess Thee, because that [with] wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful [are] Thy works, And my soul is knowing [it] well.

Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.

Free me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood,

Because our sons [are] as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

Rob not the poor because he [is] poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it [is] an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

Lo, that which I have seen: [It is] good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it [is] his portion.

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he [is] the untimely birth.'

Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

Because sentence hath not been done [on] an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.