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For wisdom keeps one from danger just as money keeps one from danger. But the good thing about much learning is that wisdom keeps alive those who have it.

Think of the work of God, for who is able to make straight what He has not made straight?

It is good that you take hold of one thing, and do not let go of the other. For the one who fears God will have both of them.

For sure there is not a right and good man on earth who always does good and never sins.

For you know in your heart that many times you have cursed others.

I turned my mind to know, to find out, and to look for wisdom and the reason of things, and to know how sinful it is to be foolish, and that being mad is foolish.

which I am still looking for but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.

Do not be in a hurry to leave him. Do not join in wrong-doing, for he will do whatever he pleases."

He who obeys the king's law will have no trouble, for a wise heart knows the right time and way.

For there is a right time and way for everything, even if a man's trouble is heavy upon him.

Then I saw the sinful buried, who used to go in and out of the holy place. They are soon forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is for nothing.

Even though a sinner does sinful things a hundred times and lives a long time, still I know that it will be well for those who fear God, and let others know they fear God.

But it will not go well for the sinful man. His days will not be long like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

There is something that is of no use on the earth: There are right and good men who have the same thing happen to them that happens to those who do sinful things. And there are sinful men who have the same thing happen to them that happens to those who are right and good. I say this also is for nothing.

So I say a man should enjoy himself. For there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and drink and be happy. For this will be with him in his work through the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

For I have thought of all this, how good and wise men and their works are in the hand of God. Man does not know if love or hate is waiting for them.

It is the same for all. The same thing will happen to both the man who is good and the man who is sinful. The same thing will happen to the clean and the unclean, and to the man who gives a gift on the altar and to the man who does not. As the good man is, so is the sinner. As the man who swears is, so is the one who is afraid to swear.

But there is hope for the one who is among the living. For sure a live dog is better off than a dead lion.

For the living know they will die. But the dead know nothing, and they will receive nothing further, for they are forgotten.

Go and eat your bread in happiness. Drink your wine with a happy heart. For God has already been pleased with your works.