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See, for thy precepts I have loved, Jehovah, According to Thy kindness quicken me.

And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!

A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!

Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

Lest Jehovah see, and [it be] evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

And I see -- I -- I do set my heart, I have seen -- I have received instruction,

There is a thing of which [one] saith: `See this, it [is] new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where [is] this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what [is] the man who cometh after the king? that which [is] already -- they have done it!

I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves [are] beasts.

And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors [is] power, and they have no comforter.

And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

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.

See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.