Study Desk

I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned Or his descendants pleading for bread.

As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah.

They have seen Your [solemn] procession, O God, The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary [in holiness].

The humble have seen it and are glad; You who seek God [requiring Him as your greatest need], let your heart revive and live.

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and assure himself that there is good in his labor. Even this, I have seen, is from the hand of God.

I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

Behold, here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in all the labor in which he labors under the sun during the few days of his life which God gives him—for this is his [allotted] reward.