Study Desk

Do not be eager in your spirit to be angry, For anger resides in the heart of fools.

Do not say, "Why is it that the former days were better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

For wisdom is protection just as money is protection, But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom keeps its possessors alive.

Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent?

It is good that you grasp one thing while not letting go of the other; for one who fears God comes out with both of them.

for you know that even you have cursed others many times as well.

"Do not be in a hurry to leave him. Do not join in an evil matter, for he will do whatever he pleases."

One who keeps a royal command experiences no trouble, for a wise heart knows the proper time and procedure.

For there is a proper time and procedure for every delight, though a person's trouble is heavy upon him.

Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and may lengthen his life, still I know that it will go well for those who fear God, who fear Him openly.

But it will not go well for the evil person and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a person under the sun except to eat, drink, and be joyful, and this will stand by him in his labor throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

For I have taken all this to my heart, even to examine it all, that righteous people, wise people, and their deeds are in the hand of God. People do not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits them.

It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and the unclean; for the person who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good person is, so is the sinner; the one who swears an oath is just as the one who is afraid to swear an oath.

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun, that there is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of the sons of mankind are full of evil, and insanity is in their hearts throughout their lives. Afterward they go to the dead.

For whoever is joined to all the living, there is hope; for better a live dog, than a dead lion.

For the living know that they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have a reward any longer, for their memory is forgotten.

Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your futility; for this is your reward in life and in your work which you have labored under the sun.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.