Hello and welcome to
"His Words are Life."
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I am Kelly Mower and
today we are going to
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continue reading in
the book of Ecclesiastes,
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but before we
start, let's pray together.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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thank you for Your
blessings in our lives.
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Blessing that we
sometimes take for granted.
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Help us now as we sit
with the blessing of Your words
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that we not just let
them wash over our sin,
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wash away again that
may they go into our hearts
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and it deepen life
changing way to Your glory.
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We love you so much and
thank you for loving us, amen.
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We are reading in the
book of Ecclesiastes Chapter 3
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and beginning with verse 20,
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this is the King James Version.
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"All go unto one
place, all are of the dust,
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and all turn to dust again.
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Who knoweth the spirit
of man that goeth upward,
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and the spirit of the beast
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that goeth
downward to the earth?
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Wherefore I perceive
that there is nothing better,
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than that a man should
rejoice in his own works,
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for that is his portion,
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for who shall bring him to see
what shall be done after him?"
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Continuing in
Ecclesiastes Chapter 4,
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"So I returned, and
considered all the oppressions
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that are done under the sun,
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and behold the tears
of such as were oppressed,
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and they had no comforter,
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and on the side
of their oppressors
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there is power, but
they had no comforter.
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Wherefore I praised the
dead which are already dead
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more than the
living which are yet alive.
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Yea, better is
he than both they,
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which hath not yet been,
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who hath not seen the evil work
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that is done under the sun.
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Again, I considered all travail,
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and every right work,
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that for this a man is
envied of his neighbour.
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This is also vanity
and vexation of spirit.
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The fool foldeth
his hands together,
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and eateth his own flesh.
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Better is an
handful with quietness,
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than both the hands full with
travail and vexation of spirit.
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Then I returned, and I
saw vanity under the sun.
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There is one alone,
and there is not a second,
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yea, he hath
neither child nor brother,
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yet is there no
end of all his labour,
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neither is his eye
satisfied with riches,
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neither saith he,
For whom do I labour,
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and bereave my soul of good?
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This is also vanity,
yea, it is a sore travail.
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Two are better than one,
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because they have a
good reward for their labour.
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For if they fall, the
one will lift up his fellow,
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but woe to him that
is alone when he falleth,
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for he hath not
another to help him up.
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Again, if two lie
together, then they have heat,
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but how can one be warm alone?
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And if one prevail against
him, two shall withstand him,
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and a threefold cord
is not quickly broken.
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Better is a
poor and a wise child
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than an old and foolish king,
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who will no more be admonished.
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For out of prison
he cometh to reign,
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whereas also he that is born
in his kingdom becometh poor.
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I considered all the
living which walk under the sun,
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with the second child that
shall stand up in his stead.
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There is no end
of all the people,
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even of all that
have been before them,
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they also that come
after shall not rejoice in him.
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Surely this also is
vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Continuing in
Ecclesiastes Chapter 5,
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this is the King James Version.
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Keep thy foot when thou
goest to the house of God,
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and be more ready to hear,
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than to give the
sacrifice of fools,
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for they consider
not that they do evil.
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Be not rash with thy mouth,
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and let not thine heart be hasty
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to utter any thing before God,
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for God is in
heaven, and thou upon earth,
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therefore let thy words be few.
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For a dream cometh through
the multitude of business,
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and a fool's voice is
known by multitude of words.
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When thou vowest a vow
unto God, defer not to pay it,
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for he hath no
pleasure in fools,
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pay that which thou hast vowed.
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Better is it that
thou shouldest not vow,
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than that thou
shouldest vow and not pay.
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Suffer not thy mouth
to cause thy flesh to sin,
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neither say thou
before the angel,
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that it was an error,
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wherefore should God
be angry at thy voice,
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and destroy the
work of thine hands?
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For in the multitude
of dreams and many words
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there are also divers
vanities, but fear thou God.
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If thou seest the
oppression of the poor,
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and violent
perverting of judgment
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and justice in a province,
marvel not at the matter,
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for he that is higher
than the highest regardeth,
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and there be higher than they.
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Moreover the profit
of the earth is for all,
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the king himself is
served by the field.
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He that loveth silver shall
not be satisfied with silver,
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nor he that loveth
abundance with increase,
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this is also vanity.
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When goods increase, they
are increased that eat them,
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and what good is
there to the owners thereof,
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saving the beholding
of them with their eyes?
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The sleep of a
labouring man is sweet,
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whether he eat little or much
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but the abundance of the rich
will not suffer him to sleep.
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There is a sore evil
which I have seen under the sun,
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namely, riches
kept for the owners
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thereof to their hurt.
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But those riches
perish by evil travail,
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and he begetteth a son,
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and there is
nothing in his hand.
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As he came forth
of his mother's womb,
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naked shall he
return to go as he came,
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and shall take
nothing of his labour,
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which he may
carry away in his hand.
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And this also is a sore evil,
that in all points as he came,
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so shall he go,
and what profit hath
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he that hath
laboured for the wind?
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All his days also
he eateth in darkness,
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and he hath much sorrow
and wrath with his sickness.
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Behold that which I have seen,
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it is good and comely
for one to eat and to drink,
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and to enjoy the
good of all his labour
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that he taketh under the
sun all the days of his life,
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which God giveth him,
for it is his portion.
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Every man also to whom God
hath given riches and wealth,
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and hath given him
power to eat thereof,
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and to take his portion,
and to rejoice in his labour,
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this is the gift of God.
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For he shall not much
remember the days of his life,
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because God answereth
him in the joy of his heart.
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Continuing in the
book of Ecclesiastes
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this is Chapter 6 and
it's the King James Version.
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There is an evil
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which I have seen under the sun,
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and it is common among men.
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A man to whom God
hath given riches,
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wealth, and
honour, so that he wanteth
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nothing for his soul
of all that he desireth,
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yet God giveth him
not power to eat thereof,
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but a stranger
eateth it, this is vanity,
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and it is an evil disease.
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If a man beget
an hundred children,
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and live many years,
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so that the days
of his years be many,
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and his soul be
not filled with good,
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and also that he have no burial,
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I say, that an untimely
birth is better than he.
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For he cometh in with vanity,
and departeth in darkness,
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and his name shall be
covered with darkness.
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Moreover he hath
not seen the sun,
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nor known any thing,
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this hath more
rest than the other.
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Yea, though he live a
thousand years twice told,
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yet hath he seen no good,
do not all go to one place?
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All the labour of
man is for his mouth,
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and yet the
appetite is not filled.
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For what hath the
wise more than the fool?
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What hath the poor,
that knoweth to walk
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before the living?
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Better is the sight of the eyes
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than the
wandering of the desire,
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this is also vanity
and vexation of spirit.
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That which hath
been is named already,
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and it is known that it is man,
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neither may he contend with him
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that is mightier than he.
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Seeing there be many
things that increase vanity,
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what is man the better?
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For who knoweth what is
good for man in this life,
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all the days of his vain life
which he spendeth as a shadow?
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For who can tell a man
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what shall be
after him under the sun?
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Continuing in
Ecclesiastes Chapter 7.
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A good name is better
than precious ointment,
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and the day of death
than the day of one's birth.
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It is better to go to
the house of mourning,
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than to go to the
house of feasting,
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for that is the end of all men,
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and the living will
lay it to his heart.
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Sorrow is better than laughter,
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for by the
sadness of the countenance
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the heart is made better.
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The heart of the wise is
in the house of mourning,
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but the heart of fools
is in the house of mirth.
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It is better to hear
the rebuke of the wise,
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than for a man to
hear the song of fools.
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For as the crackling
of thorns under a pot,
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so is the laughter of the
fool, this also is vanity.
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Surely oppression
maketh a wise man mad,
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and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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Better is the end of a thing
than the beginning thereof,
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and the patient
in spirit is better
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than the proud in spirit.
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Be not hasty in
thy spirit to be angry,
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for anger resteth
in the bosom of fools.
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Say not thou, What is the cause
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that the former days
were better than these?
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For thou dost not
inquire wisely concerning this.
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Wisdom is good
with an inheritance,
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and by it there is
profit to them that see the sun.
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For wisdom is a
defense, and money is a defense,
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but the
excellency of knowledge is,
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that wisdom giveth
life to them that have it.
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Consider the work of God,
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for who can make that straight,
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which he hath made crooked?
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In the day of
prosperity be joyful,
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but in the day of
adversity consider,
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God also hath set the
one over against the other,
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to the end that man
should find nothing after him.
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All things have I seen
in the days of my vanity,
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there is a just man that
perisheth in his righteousness,
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and there is a
wicked man that prolongeth
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his life in his wickedness.
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Be not righteous over much,
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neither make thyself over wise,
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why shouldest
thou destroy thyself?
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Be not over much wicked,
neither be though foolish,
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why shouldest thou
die before thy time?
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It is good that thou
shouldest take hold of this,
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yea, also from this
withdraw not thine hand,
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for he that feareth God
shall come forth of them all.
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Wisdom strengtheneth the wise
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more than ten mighty
men which are in the city.
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For there is not a
just man upon earth,
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that doeth
good, and sinneth not.
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Also take no heed unto
all words that are spoken,
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lest thou hear thy
servant curse thee.
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For oftentimes also
thine own heart knoweth
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that thou thyself
likewise hast cursed others.
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All this have I
proved by wisdom, I said,
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I will be wise,
but it was far from me.
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That which is far
off, and exceeding deep,
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who can find it out?
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I applied mine heart
to know, and to search,
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and to seek out wisdom,
and the reason of things,
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and to know the
wickedness of folly,
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even of foolishness and madness.
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And I find more
bitter than death the woman,
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whose heart is snares and nets,
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and her hands as bands,
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who so pleaseth God
shall escape from her,
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but the sinner
shall be taken by her.
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Behold, this have I
found, saith the preacher,
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counting one by one,
to find out the account,
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which yet my soul
seeketh, but I find not,
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one man among a
thousand have I found,
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but a woman among all
those have I not found.
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Lo, this only have I found,
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that God hath made man upright,
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but they have
sought out many inventions.
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Reading in
Ecclesiastes Chapter 8
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Who is as the wise man?
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And who knoweth the
interpretation of a thing?
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A man's wisdom
maketh his face to shine,
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and the boldness of
his face shall be changed.
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I counsel thee to keep
the king's commandment,
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and that in regard
of the oath of God.
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Be not hasty to
go out of his sight,
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stand not in an evil thing,
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for he doeth
whatsoever pleaseth him.
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Where the word of a
king is, there is power,
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and who may say unto
him, What doest thou?
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Who so keepeth the commandment
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shall feel no evil
thing, and a wise man's heart
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discerneth both
time and judgment.
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Because to every purpose
there is time and judgment,
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therefore the misery
of man is great upon him.
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For he knoweth not
that which shall be,
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for who can tell
him when it shall be?
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There is no man that hath power
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over the spirit
to retain the spirit,
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neither hath he
power in the day of death,
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and there is no
discharge in that war,
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neither shall
wickedness deliver those
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that are given to it.
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