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When the sinful are many, sins become many, but those who are right with God will see their fall.

Do you see a man who is quick with his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

All things are tiring. Man is not able to tell about them. The eye never has enough to see, and the ear is never filled with what it hears.

Is there anything of which one might say, "See, this is new"? It has already been there since long before us.

I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun. And see, it is all for nothing. It is like trying to catch the wind.

I said to myself, "Come now, I will test you with things that are fun. So have a good time." But see, this also was for nothing.

I tried to find in my mind how to make my body happy with wine, yet at the same time having my mind lead me with wisdom. I tried to find how to take hold of what is foolish, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few years of their lives.

So I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his work, for that is all he can do. Who can bring him to see what will happen after him?

In one part of a land if you see a bad power held over the poor, and what is right and fair and good taken away, do not be surprised by what you see. For one leader watches over another leader, and more important leaders watch over them.

When there are more good things, there are also more people to eat them. So what does their owner get except to see them with his eyes?

What the eyes see is better than what there is a desire for. This also is for nothing, like trying to catch the wind.

Wisdom with a gift passed down from father to son is good and a help to those who see the sun.

"See, I have found this out," says the Preacher. "I have added one thing to another to find the reason,

See, I have found only this, that God made men right, but they have found many sinful ways."

I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the work which has been done on the earth, not sleeping day or night.

Light is pleasing. It is good for the eyes to see the sun.

This will be the day when the men who watch the house shake in fear. Strong men bow. Those who grind will stop because they are few. And the eyes of those who look through windows will not see well.

"I tell you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and deer of the field, you must not wake up my love until it is pleasing to her." "Listen, it is the voice of my loved one! See, he is coming! He is running over the mountains, jumping across the hills. My love is like a gazelle or a young deer. See, he is standing behind our wall. He is looking through the windows, through the wood cross-pieces. "My love speaks and says to me, ‘Get up, my love, my beautiful one, and come with me. For see, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. The flowers are coming through the ground. The time for singing has come. The voice of the turtle-dove has been heard in our land. The fig tree has its fruits. The flowers on the vines spread their sweet smell. Get up, my love, my beautiful one, and come with me! O my dove, hidden in the rock, in the secret place in the mountain-side, let me see you. Let me hear your voice. For your voice is sweet, and you are beautiful. ‘Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that are destroying our grape-fields, for the flowers are on the vines. My love is mine, and I am his. He lets his flock eat among the lilies. Until the morning comes and the shadows hurry away, turn, my love. Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.'"

"I tell you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and deer of the field, you must not wake up my love until it is pleasing to her." "Listen, it is the voice of my loved one! See, he is coming! He is running over the mountains, jumping across the hills.

My love is like a gazelle or a young deer. See, he is standing behind our wall. He is looking through the windows, through the wood cross-pieces.