God

What is that that hath bene? that is nowe: and that that shalbe, hath now bene: for God requireth that which is past.

I thought in mine heart, God wil iudge the iust and the wicked: for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke.

I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.

Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.

For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.

It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.

For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.

If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.

And the abundance of the earth is ouer all: the King also consisteth by the fielde that is tilled.

Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.

Surely hee will not much remember the dayes of his life, because God answereth to the ioy of his heart.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

A man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that it desireth: but God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a strange man shall eate it vp: this is vanitie, and this is an euill sicknesse.

What is that that hath bene? the name thereof is nowe named: and it is knowen that it is man: and he cannot striue with him that is stronger then he.

Wisedome is good with an inheritance, and excellent to them that see the sunne.

For man shall rest in the shadowe of wisedome, and in the shadowe of siluer: but the excellencie of the knowledge of wisedome giueth life to the possessers thereof.

Be not thou iust ouermuch, neither make thy selfe ouerwise: wherefore shouldest thou be desolate?

It is farre off, what may it be? and it is a profound deepenesse, who can finde it?

Beholde, sayth the Preacher, this haue I found, seeking one by one to finde the count: And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde. Onely loe, this haue I founde, that God hath made man righteous: but they haue sought many inuentions.

I aduertise thee to take heede to ye mouth of the King, and to the worde of the othe of God.

Though a sinner doe euill an hundreth times, and God prolongeth his dayes, yet I knowe that it shalbe well with them that feare the Lord, and doe reuerence before him.

But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.

And I praysed ioy: for there is no goodnesse to man vnder the sunne, saue to eate and to drinke and to reioyce: for this is adioyned to his labour, the dayes of his life that God hath giuen him vnder the sunne.

Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.

I have surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them.