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Grace may be deceitful, and beauty vain, but a woman who fears Jehovah, she shall be praised.

A generation passes away, and another generation comes; but the earth stands forever.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and I also know that one event happens with all of them.

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and to heap up, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and striving after wind.

I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice to do good in his life.

For if they fall, this one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him, the one that falls, and there is not another to lift him up.

Also if two lie together , then they have warmth; but for one, how is he warm?

For in the multitude of dreams, both words and vanities abound; but fear God.

The sleep of the laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much. But the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

but those riches perish by an evil use; and he fathers a son, and nothing is in his hand.

A man to whom God has given riches, and wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires; yet God does not give him the power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it; this disease.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of the stupid one is in the house of mirth.

For wisdom is in a shadow; and silver is in a shadow; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.

In the good day, be in good spirit , but also see in the evil day, that God has made one along with the other, so that man should not find anything after him.

All this I have tested by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets; her hands are bonds. He who is good before God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be captured by her.

that my soul still seeks, but I have not found; one man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found.

See, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.

But it shall not be well for the wicked; and he shall not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

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