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| [1]Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: -- I have wearied myself [for] God, I have wearied myself [for] God, and am consumed. |
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| [2]For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man. |
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| [3]Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know. |
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| [4]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! |
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| [5]Every saying of God [is] tried, A shield He [is] to those trusting in Him. |
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| [6]Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false. |
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| [7]Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die. |
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| [8]Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion, |
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| [9]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. |
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| [10]Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty. |
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| [11]A generation [is], that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless. |
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| [12]A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed. |
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| [13]A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up. |
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| [14]A generation -- swords [are] their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from [among] men. |
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| [15]To the leech [are] two daughters, `Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said `Sufficiency;' |
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| [16]Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth -- it [is] not satisfied [with] water, And fire -- it hath not said, `Sufficiency,' |
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| [17]An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles. |
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| [18]Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: |
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| [19]The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man in youth. |
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| [20]So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.' |
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| [21]For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four -- it is not able to bear: |
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| [22]For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread, |
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| [23]For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress. |
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| [24]Four [are] little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise: |
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| [25]The ants [are] a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food, |
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| [26]Conies [are] a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house, |
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| [27]A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out -- each one shouting, |
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| [28]A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king. |
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| [29]Three there are going well, Yea, four are good in going: |
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| [30]An old lion -- mighty among beasts, That turneth not back from the face of any, |
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| [31]A girt one of the loins, or a he-goat, And a king -- no rising up with him. |
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| [32]If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth! |
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| [33]For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife! |
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