I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

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

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.