And my heart knew much- wisdom, knowledge, parables and understanding: I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.

I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account [of things], and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

On this I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was done upon the earth; even though one sees no sleep day or night.

And because the Preacher was wise above [others, so it was] that he taught men excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables.

The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing, [even] words of truth.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just. I said, This is also vanity.

And He spared His people, and all His saints [are] under Your hands; and they are under You; and he received of His words

granting his petition to him that prays; and He blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength cannot man prevail.

And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I should find favor in the eyes of the Lord, then will He bring me back, and He will show me [both] it and its beauty.

But if He should say thus, I have no pleasure in you; behold, [here] I am, let Him do to me according to that which is good in His sight.

Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the Sovereign of all;

You see [it]; for You observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into Your hands; the poor has been left to You; You are a helper to the orphan.

Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

Disclose Your way to the Lord, and trust in Him; and He shall bring [it] to pass.

And He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.

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O Lord our God, give us peace, for You have rendered to us all things.

Hearken to Me, you islands; and attend, you Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, says the Lord; from my mother's womb He has called my name;

and said to me, You are My servant, O Israel, and in you I will be glorified.

Behold, I have made you this day as a strong city, and as a bronze wall, strong [against] all the kings of Judah and its princes, and the people of the land.

And they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you; because I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of My Father's hand.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord has given to each one?

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

For we are coworkers with God; you are God's field, you are God's building.

For no other foundation can anyone lay, other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

each one's work shall be made manifest; for the Day shall reveal it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test each one's work, as to what sort it is.

If anyone's work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

For which cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I have been persuaded that He is able to guard that which I have committed to Him until that Day.

who by the power of God [are] being guarded through faith for the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

I have seen all things in the days of my vanity; there is a just man perishing in his justice, and there is an ungodly man remaining in his wickedness.

For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

And they said, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.

And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered.

And they shall be Mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.