Ecclesiastes:9

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* For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this , that the righteous , and the wise , and their works , are in the hand of God : no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them . * All things come alike to all : there is one event to the righteous , and to the wicked ; to the good and to the clean , and to the unclean ; to him that sacrificeth , and to him that sacrificeth not : as is the good , so is the sinner ; and he that sweareth , as he that feareth an oath sh @buw #ah #. * This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun , that there is one event unto all : yea , also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil , and madness is in their heart while they live , and after that they go to the dead . * For to him that is joined (8675 ) to all the living there is hope : for a living dog is better than a dead lion . * For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not any thing , neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten . * Also their love , and their hatred sin #ah #, and their envy qin #ah #, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun . * Go thy way , eat thy bread with joy , and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works ma #aseh #. * Let thy garments be always white ; and let thy head lack no ointment . * Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity , which he hath given thee under the sun , all the days of thy vanity : for that is thy portion in this life , and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun . * Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work ma #aseh #, nor device , nor knowledge da #ath #, nor wisdom , in the grave sh @#owl #, whither thou goest . * I returned , and saw under the sun , that the race is not to the swift , nor the battle to the strong , neither yet bread to the wise , nor yet riches to men of understanding , nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all . * For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . * This wisdom have I seen also under the sun , and it seemed great unto me : * There was a little city , and few men within it ; and there came a great king against it , and besieged it , and built great bulwarks against it : * Now there was found in it a poor wise man , and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man . * Then said I , Wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless the poor mans wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . * The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools . * Wisdom is better than weapons of war : but one sinner destroyeth much good .

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