God

When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.

Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,

The honour of God is to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.

For coals thou art putting on his head, And Jehovah giveth recompense to thee.

Great is the Former of all, And He is rewarding a fool, And is rewarding transgressors.

Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.

Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.

Many are seeking the face of a ruler, And from Jehovah is the judgment of each.

Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What is His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

Every saying of God is tried, A shield He is to those trusting in Him.

Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die.

Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

For to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it is a gift of God.

I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.