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Whoso is sharing with a thief is hating his own soul, Execration he heareth, and telleth not.

Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What [is] His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him:

He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

Known in the gates is her husband, In his sitting with elders of the land.

What advantage [is] to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

The wise! -- his eyes [are] in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this [is] vanity and a great evil.

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also [is] vanity.

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.

yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it [is] a gift of God.

And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it [is] his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

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.

The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.