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Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before God that it was an error, lest God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands.

For in the multitude of dreams and vain things and many words is false worship; but you should worship God.

To every man also the LORD has given riches and wealth, and has given power to eat thereof and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

For he shall remember no more the days of his life; because God will keep him busy with the joy of his heart.

There is a man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of them; but a stranger eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Consider the work of God; for who can straighten him who is crooked?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but look after yourself in the day of adversity. God also has made one thing opposite to another, to the end that man should know nothing after he is gone.

It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not your hand; for he who reverences God shall follow all these things.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands bind him who is good; he who is good in the presence of God shall escape from her; but he who sins shall be caught by her.

But behold, this thing I have found, that God has made men upright; but they have sought out many devices.

Keep the kings command, and in regard of the oath of God be not hasty.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.

Then I commended mirth, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry; for that shall accompany him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

Then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work which is done under the sun; all that a man may labor to seek out, yet he will not find it; and whosoever says that he is wise yet will not be able to find it.

FOR all the essence of these things have I considered in my heart, and my heart perceived all of this, that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; no man knows either love or hatred; for everything which is before him is vanity.

Come now, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God is pleased with your works.

Then the dust shall return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

And many people shall go and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, provoking God in the majesty of his glory.