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Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

[It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

For wisdom [is] a defense, [and] money [is] a defense: but the excellence of knowledge [is], [that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?

[It is] good that thou shouldst take hold of this; yes, also from this withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall escape from them all.

For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

For often also thy own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatever pleaseth him.

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also [there is that] neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

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.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, hath now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

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 labor which thou takest under the sun.