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Give praise to the Lord; for it is good to make melody to our God; praise is pleasing and beautiful.

Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music.

Give praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem; give praise to your God, O Zion.

Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands;

Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.

Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.

The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:

Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.