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And I gave my heart to seek and to investigate by wisdom concerning all which is done under the heavens. It is an evil task God has given to the sons of men, to be afflicted by it.

Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it was from the hand of God.

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and to heap up, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and striving after wind.

I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men, to be humbled by it.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has set eternity in their heart, without which man cannot find out the work that God makes from the beginning even to the end.

And also every man that eats and drinks, and sees good in his labor, it is the gift of God.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever; nothing is to be added to it, and nothing is to diminish from it. And God does it so that they fear before Him.

That which has been, it already is; and that which is to be, it already has been. And God seeks what has gone by.

I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every good purpose and for every work.

I said in my heart concerning the issue of the sons of men, that God may test them and see that they by themselves are beasts.

Guard your feet when you go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, more than to give a sacrifice, as do the fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.

Do not be hasty with your mouth, and do not let your heart hurry to bring forth a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; on account of this, let your words be few.

When you vow a vow to God, do not wait to fulfill it. For He has no pleasure in fools. Fulfill that which you have vowed.

Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; do not say before the angel that it was an error. Why should God be angry over your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

For in the multitude of dreams, both words and vanities abound; but fear God.

See what I have seen: It is good which a laborer does to eat and to drink and to see good in all his labor which as a laborer does under the sun, the number of the days of his life which God gives to him, for it is his portion.

Also every man to whom God has given riches and treasures, and gives him power to eat of it, and to take his share, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God answers him in the joy of his heart.

A man to whom God has given riches, and wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires; yet God does not give him the power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it; this disease.

Look at the work of God; for who can make that straight which He has bent?