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Seuen times a day doe I praise thee, because of thy righteous iudgements.

Because of the House of the Lord our God, I will procure thy wealth.

Praise ye the Lord, because he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer.

I will worship toward thine holy Temple and praise thy Name, because of thy louing kindenesse and for thy trueth: for thou hast magnified thy Name aboue all things by thy word.

And they shall sing of the wayes of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord is great.

Because I haue called, & ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, & none woulde regarde.

Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

Men do not despise a thiefe, when he stealeth, to satisfie his soule, because he is hungrie.

The slouthfull will not plowe, because of winter: therefore shal he beg in sommer, but haue nothing.

Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.

Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.

Therefore I see that there is nothing better then that a man shoulde reioyce in his affaires, because that is his portion. For who shal bring him to see what shalbe after him?

Surely hee will not much remember the dayes of his life, because God answereth to the ioy of his heart.

It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting, because this is the ende of all men: and the liuing shall lay it to his heart.

For to euery purpose there is a time and iudgement, because the miserie of man is great vpon him.

Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill.

But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.

Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.

When the keepers of ye house shal tremble, & the strong men shal bow them selues, and the grinders shal cease, because they are few, and they waxe darke that looke out by ye windowes: