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Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought thy good.

Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate thee? and wasted away because of thine enemies?

For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.

Hearken, my son, to thy father which begot thee, and despise not thy mother because she is grown old.

And I said in my heart, As the event of the fool is, so shall it be to me, even to me: and to what purpose have I gained wisdom? I said moreover in my heart, This is also vanity, because the fool speaks of his abundance.

So I hated life; because the work that was wrought under the sun was evil before me: for all is vanity and waywardness of spirit.

And I hated the whole of my labour which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

For he shall come forth out of the house of the prisoners to reign, because he also that was in his kingdom has become poor.

Observe the commandment of the king, and that because of the word of the oath of God.

And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and that out of the holy place: and they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus: this also is vanity.

Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who do evil quickly, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil.

Then I praised mirth, because there is no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry: and this shall attend him in his labour all the days of his life, which God has given him under the sun.

in the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the mighty men shall become bent, and the grinding women cease because they have become few, and the women looking out at the windows be dark;

and they shall shut the doors in the market-place, because of the weakness of the voice of her that grinds at the mill; and he shall rise up at the voice of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song shall be brought low;

and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:

And because the Preacher was wise above others, so it was that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables.

Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother�s sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.

They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.

For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.

Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet: