And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I have perceived that this also is striving of spirit.

I set my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness;

When I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth, not seeing sleep with the eyes, day or night;

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

The preacher sought to learn acceptable words; written words of uprightness and truth.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth: There are just ones to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked ones to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Yes, He loves the people; all His saints are in Your hand; they sit down at Your feet; everyone receives Your Words.

He guards the feet of His saints, but the wicked are silent in darkness. For man does not prevail by might.

And the king said to Zadok, Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Jehovah, He will bring me back and show me both it and His dwelling place.

But if He says thus: I have not delighted in you, then behold, here am I, let Him do to me as is good in His eyes.

But indeed, I would seek the Mighty God, and before God I would lay out my case;

But You have seen it, for You pay attention to trouble and provocation; to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, the Mighty God of Truth.

Roll your ways upon Jehovah; trust also in Him, and He will bring it to pass.

And He will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday.

Roll your works upon Jehovah, and your thoughts will be established.

Jehovah, You will establish peace for us; for You have also done all our works in us.

Listen to Me, O coastlands; and give attention, you people from afar; Jehovah has called Me from the womb; from My mother's belly He has made mention of My name.

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

For behold, I have made you a fortified city this day, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its rulers, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you, says Jehovah, to deliver you.

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 has the power to snatch them out of My Father's hand.

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

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

For no one is able to lay any other foundation than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

each one's work will be revealed; for the Day will declare it, because it will be disclosed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.

If anyone's work is consumed, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep safe what I have committed to Him until that Day.

who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

I have seen everything in the days of my vanity: There is a just one who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked one who prolongs life in his wickedness.

For I was jealous of the boastful, when I saw the peace of the wicked.

And they say, How does the Mighty God know? and, Is there knowledge in the Most High?

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Those that work wickedness are built up; they even test God, and escape.

And they shall be Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts, for the day that I will make up My treasure. And I will pity them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.