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 <div class="label">4</div><div class="p"> 1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.</div><div class="p"> 4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. 5The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. 6Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.</div><div class="p"> 7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. 8There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. 9Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. 11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.</div><div class="p"> 13Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. 14For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. 15I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. 16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.</div>
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 <div class="label">5</div><div class="p"> 1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. 2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. 3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. 4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? 7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.</div><div class="p"> 8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. 9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.</div><div class="p"> 10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.</div><div class="p"> 13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. 15As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. 16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? 17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.</div><div class="p"> 18Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. 19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. 20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.</div>
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 <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"> 1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: 2a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. 3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. 4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. 5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other. 6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?</div><div class="p"> 7All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. 8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? 9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.</div><div class="p"> 10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he. 11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? 12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?</div>
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 <div class="label">3</div><div class="s2">The Apostle of this Gospel</div><div class="p"> 1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, 2if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: 3how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, 4whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) 5which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; 6that the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: 7whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 11according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 12in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. 13Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.</div><div class="s2">His Prayer and Appeal</div><div class="p"> 14For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.</div>
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 <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"> 1My son, keep my words,</div><div class="q2">And lay up my commandments with thee.</div><div class="q1"> 2Keep my commandments, and live;</div><div class="q2">And my law as the apple of thine eye.</div><div class="q1"> 3Bind them upon thy fingers,</div><div class="q2">Write them upon the table of thine heart.</div><div class="q1"> 4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister;</div><div class="q2">And call understanding thy kinswoman:</div><div class="q1"> 5That they may keep thee from the strange woman,</div><div class="q2">From the stranger which flattereth with her words.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6For at the window of my house</div><div class="q2">I looked through my casement,</div><div class="q1"> 7And beheld among the simple ones,</div><div class="q2">I discerned among the youths,</div><div class="q2">A young man void of understanding,</div><div class="q1"> 8Passing through the street near her corner;</div><div class="q2">And he went the way to her house,</div><div class="q1"> 9In the twilight, in the evening,</div><div class="q2">In the black and dark night:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10And, behold, there met him a woman</div><div class="q2"> With the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.</div><div class="q1"> 11(She is loud and stubborn;</div><div class="q2">Her feet abide not in her house:</div><div class="q1"> 12Now is she without, now in the streets,</div><div class="q2">And lieth in wait at every corner.)</div><div class="q1"> 13So she caught him, and kissed him,</div><div class="q2"> And with an impudent face said unto him,</div><div class="q1"> 14 I have peace offerings with me;</div><div class="q2">This day have I payed my vows.</div><div class="q1"> 15Therefore came I forth to meet thee,</div><div class="q2">Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.</div><div class="q1"> 16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry,</div><div class="q2">With carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.</div><div class="q1"> 17I have perfumed my bed</div><div class="q2">With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.</div><div class="q1"> 18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning:</div><div class="q2">Let us solace ourselves with loves.</div><div class="q1"> 19For the goodman is not at home,</div><div class="q2">He is gone a long journey:</div><div class="q1"> 20He hath taken a bag of money with him,</div><div class="q2"> And will come home at the day appointed.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield,</div><div class="q2">With the flattering of her lips she forced him.</div><div class="q1"> 22He goeth after her straightway,</div><div class="q2">As an ox goeth to the slaughter,</div><div class="q1">Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;</div><div class="q2"> 23Till a dart strike through his liver;</div><div class="q1">As a bird hasteth to the snare,</div><div class="q2">And knoweth not that it is for his life.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,</div><div class="q2">And attend to the words of my mouth.</div><div class="q1"> 25Let not thine heart decline to her ways,</div><div class="q2">Go not astray in her paths.</div><div class="q1"> 26For she hath cast down many wounded:</div><div class="q2">Yea, many strong men have been slain by her.</div><div class="q1"> 27Her house is the way to hell,</div><div class="q2">Going down to the chambers of death.</div><div class="b"></div>
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