Ecclesiastes 9 Cross References - YLT

¹ But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them. ² The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath. ³ This is an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event is to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after it—unto the dead.
⁴ But to him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it is better than to the dead lion. ⁵ For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten. ⁶ Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun. ⁷ Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works. ⁸ At all times let thy garments be white, and let not perfume be lacking on thy head. ⁹ See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it is thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun. ¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.
¹¹ I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all. ¹² For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
¹³ This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me. ¹⁴ A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks; ¹⁵ and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man! ¹⁶ And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' — ¹⁷ The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools. ¹⁸ Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!

³ Also He is loving the peoples; All His holy ones are in thy hand, And they—they sat down at thy foot, Each He lifteth up at thy words.

⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

²⁵ And the king saith to Zadok, `Take back the ark of God to the city; if I find grace in the eyes of Jehovah, then He hath brought me back, and shewn me it and His habitation; ²⁶ and if thus He say, I have not delighted in thee; here am I, He doth to me as is good in His eyes.'

⁸ Yet I—I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

¹⁰ In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

¹⁴ Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

⁵ Into Thy hand I commit my spirit, Thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah God of truth.

⁵ Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh, ⁶ And hath brought out as light thy righteousness, And thy judgment as noon-day.

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' ¹² Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. ¹³ Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

³ Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

¹⁷ And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;

¹⁵ The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong.

²⁵ I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

¹⁴ There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also is vanity.

¹⁶ When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

¹⁴ And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

⁹ And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out—he made right many similes. ¹⁰ The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth.

¹² O Jehovah, Thou appointest peace to us, For, all our works also Thou hast wrought for us.

¹ Hearken, O isles, unto me, And attend, O peoples, from afar, Jehovah from the womb hath called me, From the bowels of my mother He hath made mention of my name. ² And he maketh my mouth as a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He hath hid me, And He maketh me for a clear arrow, In His quiver He hath hid me. ³ And He saith to me, `My servant Thou art, O Israel, In whom I beautify Myself.' <sup>4</sup> And I said, `For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment is with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.

¹⁸ And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land; ¹⁹ and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee am I, —an affirmation of Jehovah—to deliver thee.

¹⁵ And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.' ¹⁶ Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name. ¹⁷ And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing—a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him. ¹⁸ And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, ²⁸ and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish—to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; ²⁹ my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father; ³⁰ I and the Father are one.'

⁵ Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave? ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; ⁷ so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth—God; ⁸ and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour, ⁹ for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on it,
¹¹ for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; ¹² and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— ¹³ of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare it, because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove; ¹⁴ if of any one the work doth remain that he built on it, a wage he shall receive; ¹⁵ if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

¹² for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard—to that day.

⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

³ and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

⁸ and if the woman be not willing to come after thee, then thou hast been acquitted from this mine oath: only my son thou dost not cause to turn back thither.' ⁹ And the servant putteth his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and sweareth to him concerning this matter.

¹⁷ And the men say unto her, `We are acquitted of this thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear: ¹⁸ lo, we are coming into the land, this line of scarlet thread thou dost bind to the window by which thou hast caused us to go down, and thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all the house of thy father thou dost gather unto thee, to the house; ¹⁹ and it hath been, any one who goeth out from the doors of thy house without, his blood is on his head, and we are innocent; and any one who is with thee in the house, his blood is on our head, if a hand is on him; ²⁰ and if thou declare this our matter, then we have been acquitted from thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear.'

²⁶ and the people come in unto the forest, and lo, the honey dropped, and none is moving his hand unto his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

²² It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸ Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ¹² They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. ¹³ They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. ¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. <sup>15</sup> What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' <sup>16</sup> Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
<sup>17</sup> How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger. <sup>18</sup> They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away, <sup>19</sup> God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him—and he knoweth. <sup>20</sup> His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh. <sup>21</sup> For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off? <sup>22</sup> To God doth one teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge? <sup>23</sup> This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet. <sup>24</sup> His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten. <sup>25</sup> And this one dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness. <sup>26</sup> Together—on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
<sup>27</sup> Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully. <sup>28</sup> For ye say, `Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent—The tabernacles of the wicked?' ²⁹ Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know? ³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought. ³¹ Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him? ³² And he—to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept. ³³ Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering. ³⁴ And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

¹⁴ The wise! —his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all; ¹⁵ and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity: ¹⁶ That there is no remembrance to the wise—with the fool—to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

²⁶ 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.

⁶ And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

² Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.

¹⁸ It is good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.

¹² Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred times, and prolonging himself for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him. ¹³ And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
¹⁴ There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also is vanity.

¹⁸ And he despised the oath—to break covenant, And lo, he hath given his hand, And all these he hath done, he escapeth not. ¹⁹ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I live—Mine oath that he hath despised, And My covenant that he hath broken, Have I not put it on his head?

³ And he saith unto me, `This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent. <sup>4</sup> `I have brought it out—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts—and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

⁵ And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁵ And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

¹⁸ And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

⁵ And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

²¹ and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, `I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

¹⁶ Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

³² In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.

¹¹ Because sentence hath not been done on an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

² The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

⁷ And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

⁹ Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable—who doth know it?

¹⁹ for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings: ²⁰ these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'

²¹ for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, ²² thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness; ²³ all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'

¹¹ and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.

¹⁷ `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

²³ and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

¹¹ and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities.

²⁴ And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, ³⁰ evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

³ for we were once—also we—thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious—hating one another;

¹⁶ and had a rebuke of his own iniquity—a dumb ass, in man's voice having spoken, did forbid the madness of the prophet.

⁷ For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease. ⁸ If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth die in the dust, ⁹ From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant. ¹⁰ And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where is he? ¹¹ Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry. ¹² And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

¹⁸ For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

²¹ This I turn to my heart—therefore I hope. ²² The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.

²⁶ and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through. ²⁷ `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father, <sup>28</sup> for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment. <sup>29</sup> `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

⁸ The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me—and I am not. ⁹ Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up. ¹⁰ He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

²¹ Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.

²³ For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.

⁵ For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

¹⁰ To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah. ¹¹ Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹⁵ They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

¹¹ There is not a remembrance of former generations; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

¹⁶ That there is no remembrance to the wise—with the fool—to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

¹⁰ And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity.

¹⁴ Dead—they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.

¹⁶ For Thou art our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father, Our redeemer from the age, is Thy name.

²⁷ and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this—judgment,

⁸ And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power. ¹⁸ Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,

³ Trust not in princes—in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance. ⁴ His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

²⁸ The hope of the righteous is joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

¹⁸ And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me. ¹⁹ And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity. ²⁰ And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun. ²¹ For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it—his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil. ²² For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun? ²³ For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also is vanity.

¹² For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

²⁰ saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and be going to the land of Israel, for they have died—those seeking the life of the child.'

⁴ and Abel, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present, ⁵ and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

¹⁹ Why hast thou said, She is my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.'

⁸ And Moses taketh the blood, and sprinkleth on the people, and saith, `Lo, the blood of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you, concerning all these things.'
⁹ And Moses goeth up, Aaron also, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, ¹⁰ and they see the God of Israel, and under His feet is as the white work of the sapphire, and as the substance of the heavens for purity; ¹¹ and unto those of the sons of Israel who are near He hath not put forth His hand, and they see God, and eat and drink.

⁷ and ye have eaten there before Jehovah your God, and have rejoiced in every putting forth of your hand, ye and your households, with which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.

¹² and ye have rejoiced before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your handmaids, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he hath no part and inheritance with you.

¹⁴ and thou hast rejoiced in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates. ¹⁵ Seven days thou dost feast before Jehovah thy God, in the place which Jehovah doth choose, for Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all thine increase, and in every work of thy hands, and thou hast been only rejoicing.

⁶⁶ On the eighth day he hath sent the people away, and they bless the king, and go to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart for all the good that Jehovah hath done to David His servant, and to Israel His people.

¹ And they bring in the ark of God, and set it up in the midst of the tent that David hath stretched out for it, and they bring near burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before God; ² and David ceaseth from offering the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, and blesseth the people in the name of Jehovah, ³ and giveth a portion to every man of Israel, both man and woman: to each a cake of bread, and a measure of wine, and a grape-cake.

²¹ And they sacrifice to Jehovah sacrifices, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the morrow of that day, bullocks a thousand, rams a thousand, lambs a thousand, and their oblations, even sacrifices in abundance, for all Israel. ²² And they eat and drink before Jehovah on that day with great joy, and cause Solomon son of David to reign a second time, and anoint him before Jehovah for leader, and Zadok for priest.
²³ And Solomon sitteth on the throne of Jehovah for king instead of David his father, and prospereth, and all Israel hearken unto him,

²³ And all the assembly take counsel to keep other seven days, and they keep seven days with joy; ²⁴ for Hezekiah king of Judah hath presented to the assembly a thousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep; and the heads have presented to the assembly bullocks a thousand, and sheep ten thousand; and priests sanctify themselves in abundance. ²⁵ And all the assembly of Judah rejoice, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the assembly, those coming in from Israel, and the sojourners, those coming in from the land of Israel, and those dwelling in Judah, ²⁶ and there is great joy in Jerusalem; for from the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there is not like this in Jerusalem, ²⁷ and the priests, the Levites, rise and bless the people, and their voice is heard, and their prayer cometh in to His holy habitation, to the heavens.

¹⁰ And he saith to them, `Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day is holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.' <sup>11</sup> And the Levites are keeping all the people silent, saying, `Be silent, for to-day is holy, and be not grieved.' ¹² And all the people go to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great joy, because they have understood concerning the words that they made known to them.

²⁴ 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. ²⁵ For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I? ²⁶ 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.

¹² I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life, ¹³ yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it is a gift of God.

¹⁸ Lo, that which I have seen: It is good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it is his portion.

¹⁵ And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

¹⁹ For mirth they are making a feast, And wine maketh life joyful, And the silver answereth with all.

²⁹ And he said to her, `Because of this word go; the demon hath gone forth out of thy daughter;'

⁴¹ But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

⁵⁰ Jesus saith to him, `Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,

³⁵ but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

³ and thou hast bathed, and anointed thyself, and put thy garments upon thee, and gone down to the threshing-floor; let not thyself be known to the man till he complete to eat and to drink;

² and Joab sendeth to Tekoah, and taketh thence a wise woman, and saith unto her, `Feign thyself a mourner, I pray thee, and put on, I pray thee, garments of mourning, and anoint not thyself with oil, and thou hast been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,

²⁴ And Mephibosheth son of Saul hath come down to meet the king—and he prepared not his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, yea, his garments he washed not, even from the day of the going away of the king, till the day that he came in peace—

¹⁵ And Mordecai went out from before the king, in royal clothing of blue and white, and a great crown of gold, and a garment of fine linen and purple, and the city of Shushan hath rejoiced and been glad;

⁵ Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!

³ desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days.

⁶ Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

¹⁷ `But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face,

⁴⁶ with oil my head thou didst not anoint, but this woman with ointment did anoint my feet;

⁴ Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy. ⁵ He who is overcoming—this one—shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.

⁹ After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

¹³ And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes—who are they, and whence came they?' <sup>14</sup> and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

¹⁵ `lo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' —

⁸ and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'

¹⁴ And the armies in the heaven were following him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen—white and pure;

⁵ Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

⁴ Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, ¹⁹ A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

²² Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

¹⁴ House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife.

¹⁰ And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

²⁴ 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.

¹³ yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it is a gift of God.

²² And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it is his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

¹⁵ And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

³⁰ And Caleb stilleth the people concerning Moses, and saith, `Let us certainly go up—and we have possessed it; for we are thoroughly able for it.'

¹⁹ `Now, give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God, and rise and build the sanctuary of Jehovah God, to bring in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and the holy vessels of God, to the house that is built to the name of Jehovah.'

²⁰ And David saith to Solomon his son, `Be strong, and courageous, and do; do not fear nor be affrighted, for Jehovah God, my God, is with thee; He doth not fail thee, nor forsake thee, unto the completion of all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah.

² and with all my power I have prepared for the house of my God, the gold for things of gold, and the silver for those of silver, and the brass for those of brass, the iron for those of iron, and the wood for those of wood, shoham stones, and settings, and stones of painting and of diverse colours, and all kinds of precious stone, and stones of white marble, in abundance. ³ `And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have—a peculiar treasure of gold and silver—I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:

²⁰ And Hezekiah doth thus in all Judah, and doth that which is good, and that which is right, and that which is true, before Jehovah his God; ²¹ and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.

¹⁴ and the elders of the Jews are building and prospering through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo, and they have built and finished by the decree of the God of Israel, and by the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. ¹⁵ And this house hath gone out till the third day of the month Adar, that is in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

¹² and I rise by night, I and a few men with me, and have not declared to a man what my God is giving unto my heart to do for Jerusalem, and there is no beast with me except the beast on which I am riding. ¹³ And I go out through the gate of the valley by night, and unto the front of the fountain of the dragon, and unto the gate of the dunghill, and I am measuring about the walls of Jerusalem, that are broken down, and its gates consumed with fire. ¹⁴ And I pass over unto the gate of the fountain, and unto the pool of the king, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over, ¹⁵ and I am going up through the brook by night, and am measuring about the wall, and turn back, and come in through the gate of the valley, and turn back. ¹⁶ And the prefects have not known whither I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the freemen, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, hitherto I have not declared it;

¹² And by his hand hath Shallum son of Halohesh, head of the half of the district of Jerusalem, strengthened, he and his daughters. ¹³ The gate of the valley hath Hanun strengthened, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they have built it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall unto the dung-gate. ¹⁴ And the dung-gate hath Malchijah son of Rechab, head of the district of Beth-Haccerem, strengthened; he doth built it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars. ¹⁵ And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David. ¹⁶ After him hath Nehemiah son of Azbuk, head of the half of the district of Beth-Zur, strengthened, unto over-against the graves of David, and unto the pool that is made, and unto the house of the mighty ones.

² and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What are the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? —and they burnt!'

⁶ And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined—unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.

⁹ And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them. ¹⁰ And Judah saith, `The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish is abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.' <sup>11</sup> And our adversaries say, `They do not know, nor see, till that we come in to their midst, and have slain them, and caused the work to cease.' ¹² And it cometh to pass, when the Jews have come who are dwelling near them, that they say to us ten times from all the places whither ye return—they are against us. ¹³ And I appoint at the lowest of the places, at the back of the wall, in the clear places, yea, I appoint the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

¹⁷ The builders on the wall, and the bearers of the burden, those lading, each with one of his hands is working in the business, and one is laying hold of the missile. ¹⁸ And the builders are each with his sword, girded on his loins, and building, and he who is blowing with a trumpet is beside me. ¹⁹ And I say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, `The work is abundant, and large, and we are separated on the wall, far off one from another; <sup>20</sup> in the place that ye hear the voice of the trumpet thither ye are gathered unto us; our God doth fight for us.' <sup>21</sup> And we are working in the business, and half of them are keeping hold of the spears, from the going up of the dawn till the coming forth of the stars. <sup>22</sup> Also, at that time I said to the people, `Let each with his servant lodge in the midst of Jerusalem, and they have been to us by night a guard, and by day for the work:' ²³ and there are none—I and my brethren and my servants, the men of the guard who are after me—there are none of us putting off our garments, each hath his vessel of water.

⁸ and it is very displeasing to me, and I cast all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without, out of the chamber, ⁹ and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.
¹⁰ And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field—the Levites and the singers, doing the work. ¹¹ And I strive with the prefects, and say, `Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?' and I gather them, and set them on their station; <sup>12</sup> and all Judah have brought in the tithe of the corn, and of the new wine, and of the oil, to the treasuries. <sup>13</sup> And I appoint treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites; and by their hand is Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for stedfast they have been reckoned, and on them it is to give a portion to their brethren. <sup>14</sup> Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.
<sup>15</sup> In those days I have seen in Judah those treading wine-vats on sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and lading on the asses, and also, wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, yea, they are bringing in to Jerusalem on the sabbath-day, and I testify in the day of their selling provision. <sup>16</sup> And the Tyrians have dwelt in it, bringing in fish, and every ware, and selling on sabbath to the sons of Judah and in Jerusalem. <sup>17</sup> And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, `What is this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day? ¹⁸ Thus did not your fathers do? and our God bringeth in on us all this evil, and on this city, and ye are adding fierceness on Israel, to pollute the sabbath.' ¹⁹ And it cometh to pass, when the gates of Jerusalem have been dark before the sabbath, that I speak, and the doors are shut, and I say, that they do not open them till after the sabbath; and of my servants I have stationed at the gates; there doth not come in a burden on the sabbath-day. ²⁰ And they lodge—the merchants and sellers of all ware—at the outside of Jerusalem, once or twice, ²¹ and I testify against them, and say unto them, `Wherefore are ye lodging over-against the wall? if ye repeat it, a hand I put forth upon you;' from that time they have not come in on the sabbath. <sup>22</sup> And I say to the Levites, that they be cleansed, and, coming in, keeping the gates, to sanctify the sabbath-day. Also, this, remember for me, O my God, and have pity on me, according to the abundance of Thy kindness.
<sup>23</sup> Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab. <sup>24</sup> And of their sons, half are speaking Ashdoditish—and are not knowing to speak Jewish—and according to the language of people and people. <sup>25</sup> And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and smite certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, `Ye do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do ye take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves. ²⁶ `By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel—even him did the strange women cause to sin. ²⁷ And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?' ²⁸ And one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest, is son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, and I cause him to flee from off me. ²⁹ Be mindful of them, O my God, for the redeemed of the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. ³⁰ And I have cleansed them from every stranger, and appoint charges to priests and to Levites, each in his work, ³¹ and for the wood-offering at appointed times, and for first-fruits. Be mindful of me, O my God, for good.

¹⁵ My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers. ¹⁶ I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness—Thine only. ¹⁷ God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders. ¹⁸ And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

⁵ For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten. ⁶ Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.

³ If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty themselves; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is.

⁶ In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike are good.

¹⁸ For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

¹³ And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

³³ but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

³⁴ Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

⁴ it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: —

²⁵ `And now, lo, I have known that no more shall ye see my face, —ye all among whom I did go preaching the reign of God; <sup>26</sup> wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all, <sup>27</sup> for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God. <sup>28</sup> `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood, ²⁹ for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock, ³⁰ and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ `Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

¹¹ in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

¹⁸ for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed, ¹⁹ in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ; ²⁰ and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named—that upon another's foundation I might not build—

²⁴ have ye not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

²⁶ I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

¹⁰ and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

¹⁰ And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

²³ and all, whatever ye may do—out of soul work—as to the Lord, and not to men,

¹² Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth, ¹³ and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding you, ¹⁴ having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me, ¹⁵ and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.

¹⁸ `And thou hast remembered Jehovah thy God, for He it is who is giving to thee power to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He hath sworn to thy fathers as at this day.

³ Ye multiply not—ye speak haughtily—The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed. ⁴ Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength. ⁵ The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished. ⁶ Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up. ⁷ Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high. ⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world. ⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty. ¹⁰ Jehovah—broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'

⁵⁰ And David is stronger than the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smiteth the Philistine, and putteth him to death, and there is no sword in the hand of David,

¹⁸ And there are there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel is light on his feet, as one of the roes which are in the field, ¹⁹ And Asahel pursueth after Abner, and hath not turned aside to go to the right or to the left, from after Abner. ²⁰ And Abner looketh behind him, and saith, `Art thou he—Asahel?' and he saith, `I am .' ²¹ And Abner saith to him, `Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and seize for thee one of the youths, and take to thee his armour;' and Asahel hath not been willing to turn aside from after him. <sup>22</sup> And Abner addeth again, saying unto Asahel, `Turn thee aside from after me, why do I smite thee to the earth? and how do I lift up my face unto Joab thy brother?' ²³ And he refuseth to turn aside, and Abner smiteth him with the hinder part of the spear unto the fifth rib, and the spear cometh out from behind him, and he falleth there, and dieth under it; and it cometh to pass, every one who hath come unto the place where Asahel hath fallen and dieth—they stand still.

¹⁴ And Absalom saith—and all the men of Israel—`Better is the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;' and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah's bringing unto Absalom the evil.

²³ And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

¹⁵ and he saith, `Attend, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and O king Jehoshaphat, Thus said Jehovah to you, Ye fear not, nor are afraid of the face of this great multitude, for not for you is the battle, but for God.

¹¹ To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety. ¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. ¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened, ¹⁴ By day they meet darkness, And as night—they grope at noon.

²⁹ And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, It is the same.

¹⁶ The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power. ¹⁷ A false thing is the horse for safety, And by the abundance of his strength He doth not deliver.

⁶ Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. ⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

¹⁰ Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased. ¹¹ Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah. ³¹ A horse is prepared for a day of battle, And the deliverance is of Jehovah!

¹² And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already—they have done it!

¹⁴ The wise! —his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all; ¹⁵ and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity:

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁷ I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time is to every matter and for every work there.'

¹ And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors is power, and they have no comforter.

⁴ And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹³ See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

²³ Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,

⁶ The swift do not flee, nor do the mighty escape, Northward, by the side of the river Phrat, They have stumbled and fallen.

³⁷ Who is this—he hath said, and it is, And the Lord hath not commanded it ? ³⁸ From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.

³⁵ and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?

¹⁴ And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul. ¹⁵ And the handler of the bow standeth not, And the swift with his feet delivereth not himself, And the rider of the horse delivereth not his soul. ¹⁶ And the courageous of heart among the mighty, Naked doth flee in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah!

¹¹ in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

⁸ For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. ⁹ Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. ¹⁰ Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

⁶ He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind is the portion of their cup.

¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. ¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

¹⁵ Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken—and no healing.

²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

⁶ In the transgression of the evil is a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

⁵ Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.
⁶ For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him. ⁷ For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

¹³ Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

¹⁴ And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing—none ruling over him. ¹⁵ Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice. ¹⁶ Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them is his portion fertile, and his food fat. ¹⁷ Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?

²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be?

³⁹ `And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

²⁶ `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; <sup>27</sup> they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all; <sup>28</sup> in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; <sup>29</sup> and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. <sup>30</sup> `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed; ³¹ in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

⁴² saying—`If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes. <sup>43</sup> `Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side, ⁴⁴ and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

³⁴ `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you, ³⁵ for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land, ³⁶ watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

² for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now is a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' —

³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

²⁶ and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

¹² having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

¹² and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed—in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil—in their destruction shall be destroyed,

¹ There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great on man:

¹¹ I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

¹⁵ and they go in and lay siege against him, in Abel of Beth-Maachah, and cast up a mount against the city, and it standeth in a trench, and all the people who are are with Joab are destroying, to cause the wall to fall. ¹⁶ And a wise woman calleth out of the city, `Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, and I speak unto thee.' <sup>17</sup> And he cometh near unto her, and the woman saith, `Art thou Joab?' and he saith, `I am .' And she saith to him, `Hear the words of thy handmaid;' and he saith, `I am hearing.' <sup>18</sup> and she speaketh, saying, `They spake often in former times, saying, Let them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished. ¹⁹ I am of the peaceable—faithful ones of Israel; thou art seeking to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel; why dost thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah? ²⁰ And Joab answereth and saith, `Far be it—far be it from me; I do not swallow up nor destroy. <sup>21</sup> The matter is not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim—Sheba son of Bichri his name—hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman saith unto Joab, `Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.' ²² And the woman cometh unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast it unto Joab, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and Joab hath turned back to Jerusalem unto the king.

²⁴ And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathereth all his camp, and goeth up, and layeth siege to Samaria,

²³ and the chief of the butlers hath not remembered Joseph, but forgetteth him.

²² And the woman cometh unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast it unto Joab, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and Joab hath turned back to Jerusalem unto the king.

² and it is found written that Mordecai had declared concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs of the king, of the keepers of the threshold, who sought to put forth a hand on king Ahasuerus. ³ And the king saith, `What honour and greatness hath been done to Mordecai for this?' And the servants of the king, his ministers, say, `Nothing hath been done with him.'

¹³ Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

²² A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.

⁵ Mighty is the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,

¹⁹ The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.

¹⁸ Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!

² and sabbath having come, he began in the synagogue to teach, and many hearing were astonished, saying, `Whence hath this one these things? and what the wisdom that was given to him, that also such mighty works through his hands are done? ³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' —and they were being stumbled at him.

⁴⁷ The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, `Have ye also been led astray? ⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

²⁴ They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, `Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;' <sup>25</sup> he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner—I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.' ²⁶ And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?' <sup>27</sup> He answered them, `I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?' ²⁸ They reviled him, therefore, and said, `Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples; <sup>29</sup> we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one—we have not known whence he is.' <sup>30</sup> The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes! ³¹ and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear; ³² from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind; ³³ if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.' ³⁴ They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.

²⁶ for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; ²⁷ but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong; ²⁸ and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless— ²⁹ that no flesh may glory before Him;

² for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment, ³ and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, `Thou—sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, `Thou—stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' — ⁴ ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges. ⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? ⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

³³ `And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt; <sup>34</sup> let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty, <sup>35</sup> and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh—food in the cities; and they have kept it, <sup>36</sup> and the food hath been for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which are in the land of Egypt; and the land is cut off by the famine.' <sup>37</sup> And the thing is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants, <sup>38</sup> and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God is ?' ³⁹ and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou; ⁴⁰ thou—thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.'

³ And Samuel speaketh unto all the house of Israel, saying, `If with all your heart ye are turning back unto Jehovah—turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart unto Jehovah, and serve Him only, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.' <sup>4</sup> And the sons of Israel turn aside the Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serve Jehovah alone; <sup>5</sup> and Samuel saith, `Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I pray for you unto Jehovah.' ⁶ And they are gathered to Mizpeh, and draw water, and pour out before Jehovah, and fast on that day, and say there, `We have sinned against Jehovah;' and Samuel judgeth the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.

²³ Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

² He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard, in the street.

⁴ He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.

²⁰ for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: — ¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

¹ And the sons of Israel commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, taketh of the devoted thing, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against the sons of Israel.

⁵ and the men of Ai smite of them about thirty and six men, and pursue them before the gate unto Shebarim, and they smite them in Morad; and the heart of the people is melted, and becometh water.

¹¹ Israel hath sinned, and also they have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and also taken of the devoted thing, and also stolen, and also deceived, and also put it among their vessels, ¹² and the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; the neck they turn before their enemies, for they have become a devoted thing; I add not to be with you—if ye destroy not the devoted thing out of your midst.

²⁰ Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and on all the company of Israel there was wrath? and he alone expired not in his iniquity.'

²⁸ And a man of the people answereth and saith, `Thy father certainly adjured the people, saying, Cursed is the man who eateth food to-day; and the people are weary.' <sup>29</sup> And Jonathan saith, `My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, that mine eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.

³⁶ And Saul saith, `Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and we prey upon them till the light of the morning, and leave not a man of them.' And they say, `All that is good in thine eyes do.' And the priest saith, `Let us draw near hither unto God.' <sup>37</sup> And Saul asketh of God, `Do I go down after the Philistines? dost Thou give them into the hand of Israel?' and He hath not answered him on that day. ³⁸ And Saul saith, `Draw ye nigh hither all, the chiefs of the people, and know and see in what this sin hath been to-day; <sup>39</sup> for, Jehovah liveth, who is saving Israel: surely if it be in Jonathan my son, surely he doth certainly die;' and none is answering him out of all the people. <sup>40</sup> And he saith unto all Israel, `Ye—ye are on one side, and I and Jonathan my son are on another side;' and the people say unto Saul, `That which is good in thine eyes do.' <sup>41</sup> And Saul saith unto Jehovah, God of Israel, `Give perfection;' and Jonathan and Saul are captured, and the people went out. ⁴² And Saul saith, `Cast between me and Jonathan my son;' and Jonathan is captured. <sup>43</sup> And Saul saith unto Jonathan, `Declare to me, what hast thou done?' and Jonathan declareth to him, and saith, `I certainly tasted with the end of the rod that is in my hand a little honey; lo, I die!' <sup>44</sup> And Saul saith, `Thus doth God do, and thus doth He add, for thou dost certainly die, Jonathan.' ⁴⁵ And the people say unto Saul, `Doth Jonathan die who wrought this great salvation in Israel? —a profanation! Jehovah liveth, if there falleth from the hair of his head to the earth, for with God he hath wrought this day;' and the people rescue Jonathan, and he hath not died. ⁴⁶ And Saul goeth up from after the Philistines, and the Philistines have gone to their place;

¹ And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name is Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith, `We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.' ² And every man of Israel goeth up from after David, after Sheba son of Bichri, and the men of Judah have cleaved to their king, from the Jordan even unto Jerusalem.

¹⁶ And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' —

⁸ and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence, ⁹ him, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved, ¹¹ and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie, ¹² that they may be judged—all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

¹⁶ and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance, ¹⁷ and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

⁸ and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;

³ for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers—itching in the hearing, ⁴ and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

¹⁰ for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers—especially they of the circumcision— ¹¹ whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

¹⁵ looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled; ¹⁶ lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,