proskomma-core 0.9.12 → 0.9.13

package/test/test_data/usfm/web_psa51.usfm

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-\id PSA World English Bible British Edition (WEBBE)
-\ide UTF-8
-\h Psalms
-\toc1 The Psalms
-\toc2 Psalms
-\toc3 Psalm
-\mt1 The Psalms
-\cl Psalm
-\c 51
-\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
-\q1
-\v 1 \w Have|strong="H1732"\w* mercy on me, God, according \w to|strong="H1732"\w* \w your|strong="H1732"\w* loving kindness.
-\q2 According \w to|strong="H1732"\w* \w the|strong="H1732"\w* multitude \w of|strong="H1732"\w* \w your|strong="H1732"\w* tender mercies, blot out \w my|strong="H1732"\w* transgressions.
-\q1
-\v 2 Wash \w me|strong="H413"\w* thoroughly \w from|strong="H935"\w* \w my|strong="H834"\w* iniquity.
-\q2 Cleanse \w me|strong="H413"\w* \w from|strong="H935"\w* \w my|strong="H834"\w* sin.
-\q1
-\v 3 \w For|strong="H430"\w* \w I|strong="H6588"\w* know \w my|strong="H430"\w* \w transgressions|strong="H6588"\w*.
-\q2 \w My|strong="H430"\w* sin \w is|strong="H430"\w* constantly \w before|strong="H430"\w* \w me|strong="H2603"\w*.
-\q1
-\v 4 Against \w you|strong="H7235"\w*, \w and|strong="H5771"\w* \w you|strong="H7235"\w* \w only|strong="H7235"\w*, \w I|strong="H5771"\w* \w have|strong="H5771"\w* \w sinned|strong="H2403"\w*,
-\q2 \w and|strong="H5771"\w* done that which \w is|strong="H5771"\w* \w evil|strong="H5771"\w* \w in|strong="H2403"\w* \w your|strong="H3526"\w* sight,
-\q1 so \w you|strong="H7235"\w* may be proved right \w when|strong="H7235"\w* \w you|strong="H7235"\w* speak,
-\q2 \w and|strong="H5771"\w* justified \w when|strong="H7235"\w* \w you|strong="H7235"\w* judge.
-\q1
-\v 5 Behold, \w I|strong="H589"\w* \w was|strong="H589"\w* born \w in|strong="H3045"\w* iniquity.
-\q2 \w My|strong="H3045"\w* mother conceived \w me|strong="H589"\w* \w in|strong="H3045"\w* \w sin|strong="H2403"\w*.
-\q1
-\v 6 Behold, \w you|strong="H6213"\w* desire truth \w in|strong="H1696"\w* \w the|strong="H8199"\w* inward parts.
-\q2 \w You|strong="H6213"\w* teach \w me|strong="H1696"\w* wisdom \w in|strong="H1696"\w* \w the|strong="H8199"\w* inmost place.
-\q1
-\v 7 Purify \w me|strong="H517"\w* \w with|strong="H5771"\w* hyssop, \w and|strong="H5771"\w* \w I|strong="H2005"\w* \w will|strong="H5771"\w* \w be|strong="H517"\w* clean.
-\q2 Wash \w me|strong="H517"\w*, \w and|strong="H5771"\w* \w I|strong="H2005"\w* \w will|strong="H5771"\w* \w be|strong="H517"\w* whiter than snow.
-\q1
-\v 8 Let \w me|strong="H2451"\w* hear joy \w and|strong="H2451"\w* gladness,
-\q2 \w that|strong="H3045"\w* \w the|strong="H3045"\w* bones which \w you|strong="H3045"\w* \w have|strong="H3045"\w* broken may rejoice.
-\q1
-\v 9 Hide \w your|strong="H3526"\w* face \w from|strong="H2398"\w* my \w sins|strong="H2398"\w*,
-\q2 \w and|strong="H2398"\w* blot out all \w of|strong="H2398"\w* my iniquities.
-\q1
-\v 10 Create \w in|strong="H8085"\w* me \w a|strong="H8085"\w* clean \w heart|strong="H8085"\w*, \w O|strong="H8085"\w* God.
-\q2 Renew \w a|strong="H8085"\w* right spirit within me.
-\q1
-\v 11 Don’t throw \w me|strong="H6440"\w* \w from|strong="H6440"\w* \w your|strong="H3605"\w* \w presence|strong="H6440"\w*,
-\q2 \w and|strong="H6440"\w* don’t take \w your|strong="H3605"\w* Holy Spirit \w from|strong="H6440"\w* \w me|strong="H6440"\w*.
-\q1
-\v 12 \w Restore|strong="H2318"\w* \w to|strong="H3820"\w* \w me|strong="H3820"\w* \w the|strong="H3559"\w* joy \w of|strong="H430"\w* \w your|strong="H3559"\w* salvation.
-\q2 Uphold \w me|strong="H3820"\w* \w with|strong="H430"\w* \w a|strong="H3559"\w* willing \w spirit|strong="H7307"\w*.
-\q1
-\v 13 \w Then|strong="H3947"\w* \w I|strong="H4480"\w* \w will|strong="H7307"\w* teach transgressors \w your|strong="H3947"\w* ways.
-\q2 Sinners \w will|strong="H7307"\w* \w be|strong="H408"\w* converted \w to|strong="H6440"\w* \w you|strong="H6440"\w*.
-\q1
-\v 14 Deliver \w me|strong="H7725"\w* \w from|strong="H7725"\w* \w the|strong="H7725"\w* guilt \w of|strong="H7307"\w* bloodshed, O God, \w the|strong="H7725"\w* God \w of|strong="H7307"\w* \w my|strong="H7725"\w* \w salvation|strong="H3468"\w*.
-\q2 \w My|strong="H7725"\w* tongue \w will|strong="H7307"\w* sing aloud \w of|strong="H7307"\w* \w your|strong="H7725"\w* righteousness.
-\q1
-\v 15 Lord, open \w my|strong="H7725"\w* lips.
-\q2 \w My|strong="H7725"\w* mouth \w will|strong="H7725"\w* declare \w your|strong="H7725"\w* praise.
-\q1
-\v 16 \w For|strong="H7442"\w* \w you|strong="H5337"\w* don’t delight \w in|strong="H430"\w* sacrifice, \w or|strong="H1818"\w* else I would give \w it|strong="H6666"\w*.
-\q2 \w You|strong="H5337"\w* \w have|strong="H5337"\w* no pleasure \w in|strong="H430"\w* burnt offering.
-\q1
-\v 17 \w The|strong="H5046"\w* sacrifices \w of|strong="H6310"\w* \w God|strong="H136"\w* \w are|strong="H8193"\w* \w a|strong="H5046"\w* broken spirit.
-\q2 \w O|strong="H136"\w* \w God|strong="H136"\w*, \w you|strong="H5046"\w* \w will|strong="H136"\w* not despise \w a|strong="H5046"\w* broken \w and|strong="H6310"\w* contrite \w heart|strong="H8193"\w*.
-\b
-\q1
-\v 18 Do well \w in|strong="H5414"\w* \w your|strong="H5414"\w* good \w pleasure|strong="H7521"\w* \w to|strong="H5414"\w* Zion.
-\q2 Build \w the|strong="H3588"\w* walls \w of|strong="H2077"\w* Jerusalem.
-\q1
-\v 19 \w Then|strong="H7307"\w* \w you|strong="H3808"\w* \w will|strong="H430"\w* delight \w in|strong="H430"\w* \w the|strong="H7665"\w* \w sacrifices|strong="H2077"\w* \w of|strong="H430"\w* righteousness,
-\q2 \w in|strong="H430"\w* burnt \w offerings|strong="H2077"\w* \w and|strong="H430"\w* \w in|strong="H430"\w* whole burnt \w offerings|strong="H2077"\w*.
-\q1 \w Then|strong="H7307"\w* \w they|strong="H3808"\w* \w will|strong="H430"\w* \w offer|strong="H2077"\w* bulls \w on|strong="H430"\w* \w your|strong="H3808"\w* altar.

package/test/test_data/usfm/whitespace.usfm

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-\id MRK Mark's Gospel, translated by Mark
-\toc1 The Gospel of Mark
-\toc2 Mark
-\toc3 Mk
-\c 1
-\v 1
-\p
-This is
-how the
-Good News of
-JC
-began...

package/test/test_data/usfm/xref.usfm

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-\id MAT From USFM 3 documentation
-\toc1 Matthew
-\mt Matthew
-\c 2
-\p
-\v 22 But when Joseph heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of
-Judea, he was afraid to go there. He was given more instructions in a dream, so he went
-to the province of Galilee
-\v 23 \x - \xo 2.23: \xt Mrk 1.24; Luk 2.39; Jhn 1.45.\x* and made his home in a town
-named Nazareth. And so what the prophets had said came true: “He will be called a
-Nazarene.”

package/test/test_data/usx/bad_element.usx

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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<usx version="3.0"><bananas/></usx>

package/test/test_data/usx/cp_vp.usx

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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<usx version="3.0">
-  <book code="ESG" style="id">pubnumber and altnumber example by Mark</book>
-  <para style="toc1">Greek Esther</para>
-  <chapter number="1" style="c" pubnumber="A" altnumber="(A)" sid="ESG 1" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1-2" style="v" pubnumber="1-2" altnumber="1, 2" sid="ESG 1:1-2" />During the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the Great, the first day of the month of Nisan, Mordecai had a dream...<verse eid="ESG 1:1-2" /><verse number="3" style="v" altnumber="(3)" sid="ESG 1:3" /><verse eid="ESG 1:3" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ESG 1" />
-  <chapter number="2" style="c" pubnumber="1" altnumber="(1)" sid="ESG 2" />
-  <para style="p"><verse number="1" style="v" sid="ESG 2:1" />These things happened in the time of King Artaterxes, who reigned over 127 provinces as far as India.<verse eid="ESG 2:1" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ESG 2" />
-</usx>

package/test/test_data/usx/diff1.usx

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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<usx version="3.0">
-  <book code="RUT" style="id">World English Bible British Edition (WEBBE)</book>
-  <para style="ide">UTF-8</para>
-  <para style="h">Ruth</para>
-  <para style="toc1">The Book of Ruth</para>
-  <para style="toc2">Ruth</para>
-  <para style="toc3">Ruth</para>
-  <para style="mt2">The Book of</para>
-  <para style="mt1">Ruth</para>
-  <chapter number="1" style="c" sid="RUT 1" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="RUT 1:1" />In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. <verse eid="RUT 1:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="RUT 1:2" />The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there. <verse eid="RUT 1:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="RUT 1:3" />Elimelech Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons. <verse eid="RUT 1:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="RUT 1:4" />They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years. <verse eid="RUT 1:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="RUT 1:5" />Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband. <verse eid="RUT 1:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="RUT 1:6" />Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how the LORD<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1:6 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.</char></note> had visited his people in giving them bread. <verse eid="RUT 1:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="RUT 1:7" />She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah. <verse eid="RUT 1:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="RUT 1:8" />Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. <verse eid="RUT 1:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="RUT 1:9" />May The LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 1:9">Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept. <verse eid="RUT 1:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="RUT 1:10" />They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”<verse eid="RUT 1:10" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="11" style="v" sid="RUT 1:11" />Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? <verse eid="RUT 1:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="RUT 1:12" />Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons, <verse eid="RUT 1:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="RUT 1:13" />would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for the LORD’s hand has gone out against me.”<verse eid="RUT 1:13" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="14" style="v" sid="RUT 1:14" />They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her. <verse eid="RUT 1:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="RUT 1:15" />She said, “Behold,<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1:15 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</char></note> your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”<verse eid="RUT 1:15" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="16" style="v" sid="RUT 1:16" />Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1:16 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</char></note> my God. <verse eid="RUT 1:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="RUT 1:17" />Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May The LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”<verse eid="RUT 1:17" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="18" style="v" sid="RUT 1:18" />When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.<verse eid="RUT 1:18" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="19" style="v" sid="RUT 1:19" />So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”<verse eid="RUT 1:19" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="20" style="v" sid="RUT 1:20" />She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1:20 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">“Naomi” means “pleasant”.</char></note> Call me Mara,<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1:20 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">“Mara” means “bitter”.</char></note> for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. <verse eid="RUT 1:20" /><verse number="21" style="v" sid="RUT 1:21" />I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?” <verse eid="RUT 1:21" /><verse number="22" style="v" sid="RUT 1:22" />So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.<verse eid="RUT 1:22" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="RUT 1" />
-  <chapter number="3" style="c" sid="RUT 3" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="RUT 3:1" />Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? <verse eid="RUT 3:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="RUT 3:2" />Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor. <verse eid="RUT 3:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="RUT 3:3" />Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. <verse eid="RUT 3:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="RUT 3:4" />It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lie down. Then he will tell you what to do.”<verse eid="RUT 3:4" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="5" style="v" sid="RUT 3:5" />She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.” <verse eid="RUT 3:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="RUT 3:6" />She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her. <verse eid="RUT 3:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="RUT 3:7" />When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down. <verse eid="RUT 3:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="RUT 3:8" />At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet. <verse eid="RUT 3:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="RUT 3:9" />He said, “Who are you?”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 3:9">She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”<verse eid="RUT 3:9" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="14" style="v" sid="RUT 3:14" />She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.” <verse eid="RUT 3:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="RUT 3:15" />He said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.<verse eid="RUT 3:15" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="16" style="v" sid="RUT 3:16" />When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did it go, daughter?”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 3:16">She told her all that the man had done for her. <verse eid="RUT 3:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="RUT 3:17" />She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’”<verse eid="RUT 3:17" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="RUT 3" />
-  <chapter number="4" style="c" sid="RUT 4" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="RUT 4:1" />Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down. <verse eid="RUT 4:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="RUT 4:2" />Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down. <verse eid="RUT 4:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="RUT 4:3" />He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s. <verse eid="RUT 4:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="RUT 4:4" />I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 4:4">He said, “I will redeem it.”<verse eid="RUT 4:4" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="5" style="v" sid="RUT 4:5" />Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”<verse eid="RUT 4:5" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="6" style="v" sid="RUT 4:6" />The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”<verse eid="RUT 4:6" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="7" style="v" sid="RUT 4:7" />Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbour; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel. <verse eid="RUT 4:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="RUT 4:8" />So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his sandal.<verse eid="RUT 4:8" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="9" style="v" sid="RUT 4:9" />Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. <verse eid="RUT 4:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="RUT 4:10" />Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from amongst his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”<verse eid="RUT 4:10" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="11" style="v" sid="RUT 4:11" />All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. <verse eid="RUT 4:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="RUT 4:12" />Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4:12 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or, seed</char></note> which the LORD will give you by this young woman.”<verse eid="RUT 4:12" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="13" style="v" sid="RUT 4:13" />So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son. <verse eid="RUT 4:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="RUT 4:14" />The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel. <verse eid="RUT 4:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="RUT 4:15" />He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.” <verse eid="RUT 4:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="RUT 4:16" />Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him. <verse eid="RUT 4:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="RUT 4:17" />The women, her neighbours, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.<verse eid="RUT 4:17" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="18" style="v" sid="RUT 4:18" />Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron, <verse eid="RUT 4:18" /><verse number="19" style="v" sid="RUT 4:19" />and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab, <verse eid="RUT 4:19" /><verse number="20" style="v" sid="RUT 4:20" />and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon, <verse eid="RUT 4:20" /><verse number="21" style="v" sid="RUT 4:21" />and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed, <verse eid="RUT 4:21" /><verse number="22" style="v" sid="RUT 4:22" />and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.<verse eid="RUT 4:22" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="RUT 4" />
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-  <book code="RUT" style="id">World English Bible British Edition (WEBBE)</book>
-  <para style="ide">UTF-8</para>
-  <para style="h">Ruth</para>
-  <para style="toc1">The Book of Ruth</para>
-  <para style="toc2">Ruth</para>
-  <para style="toc3">Ruth</para>
-  <para style="mt2">The Book of</para>
-  <para style="mt1">Ruth</para>
-  <chapter number="1" style="c" sid="RUT 1" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="RUT 1:1" />In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. <verse eid="RUT 1:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="RUT 1:2" />The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there. <verse eid="RUT 1:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="RUT 1:3" />Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons. <verse eid="RUT 1:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="RUT 1:4" />They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years. <verse eid="RUT 1:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="RUT 1:5" />Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband. <verse eid="RUT 1:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="RUT 1:6" />Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how the LORD<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1:6 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.</char></note> had visited his people in giving them bread. <verse eid="RUT 1:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="RUT 1:7" />She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah. <verse eid="RUT 1:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="RUT 1:8" />Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. <verse eid="RUT 1:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="RUT 1:9" />May The LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 1:9">Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept. <verse eid="RUT 1:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="RUT 1:10" />They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”<verse eid="RUT 1:10" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="11" style="v" sid="RUT 1:11" />Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? <verse eid="RUT 1:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="RUT 1:12" />Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons, <verse eid="RUT 1:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="RUT 1:13" />would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for the LORD’s hand has gone out against me.”<verse eid="RUT 1:13" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="14" style="v" sid="RUT 1:14" />They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her. <verse eid="RUT 1:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="RUT 1:15" />She said, “Behold,<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1:15 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</char></note> your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”<verse eid="RUT 1:15" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="16" style="v" sid="RUT 1:16" />Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1:16 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</char></note> my God. <verse eid="RUT 1:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="RUT 1:17" />Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May The LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”<verse eid="RUT 1:17" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="18" style="v" sid="RUT 1:18" />When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.<verse eid="RUT 1:18" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="19" style="v" sid="RUT 1:19" />So they both went, until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”<verse eid="RUT 1:19" /></para>
-   <chapter eid="RUT 1" />
-  <chapter number="2" style="c" sid="RUT 2" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="RUT 2:1" />Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. <verse eid="RUT 2:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="RUT 2:2" />Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean amongst the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favour.”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 2:2">She said to her, “Go, my daughter.” <verse eid="RUT 2:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="RUT 2:3" />She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.<verse eid="RUT 2:3" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="4" style="v" sid="RUT 2:4" />Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May The LORD be with you.”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 2:4">They answered him, “May The LORD bless you.”<verse eid="RUT 2:4" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="5" style="v" sid="RUT 2:5" />Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”<verse eid="RUT 2:5" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="6" style="v" sid="RUT 2:6" />The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab. <verse eid="RUT 2:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="RUT 2:7" />She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers amongst the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”<verse eid="RUT 2:7" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="8" style="v" sid="RUT 2:8" />Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens. <verse eid="RUT 2:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="RUT 2:9" />Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”<verse eid="RUT 2:9" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="10" style="v" sid="RUT 2:10" />Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favour in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”<verse eid="RUT 2:10" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="11" style="v" sid="RUT 2:11" />Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before. <verse eid="RUT 2:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="RUT 2:12" />May the LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”<verse eid="RUT 2:12" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="13" style="v" sid="RUT 2:13" />Then she said, “Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”<verse eid="RUT 2:13" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="14" style="v" sid="RUT 2:14" />At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar!”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 2:14">She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it. <verse eid="RUT 2:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="RUT 2:15" />When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even amongst the sheaves, and don’t reproach her. <verse eid="RUT 2:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="RUT 2:16" />Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”<verse eid="RUT 2:16" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="17" style="v" sid="RUT 2:17" />So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah<note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2:17 </char><char style="ft" closed="false">1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel</char></note> of barley. <verse eid="RUT 2:17" /><verse number="18" style="v" sid="RUT 2:18" />She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.<verse eid="RUT 2:18" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="19" style="v" sid="RUT 2:19" />Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 2:19">She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.” <verse eid="RUT 2:19" /><verse number="20" style="v" sid="RUT 2:20" />Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”<verse eid="RUT 2:20" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="21" style="v" sid="RUT 2:21" />Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”<verse eid="RUT 2:21" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="22" style="v" sid="RUT 2:22" />Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.” <verse eid="RUT 2:22" /><verse number="23" style="v" sid="RUT 2:23" />So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.<verse eid="RUT 2:23" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="RUT 2" />
-  <chapter number="3" style="c" sid="RUT 3" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="RUT 3:1" />Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “Dearest daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? <verse eid="RUT 3:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="RUT 3:2" />Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor. <verse eid="RUT 3:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="RUT 3:3" />Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. <verse eid="RUT 3:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="RUT 3:4" />It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lie down. Then he will tell you what to do.”<verse eid="RUT 3:4" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="5" style="v" sid="RUT 3:5" />She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.” <verse eid="RUT 3:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="RUT 3:6" />She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her. <verse eid="RUT 3:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="RUT 3:7" />When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down. <verse eid="RUT 3:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="RUT 3:8" />At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet. <verse eid="RUT 3:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="RUT 3:9" />He said, “Who are you?”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 3:9">She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”<verse eid="RUT 3:9" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="10" style="v" sid="RUT 3:10" />He said, “You are blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich. <verse eid="RUT 3:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="RUT 3:11" />Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman. <verse eid="RUT 3:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="RUT 3:12" />Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I. <verse eid="RUT 3:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="RUT 3:13" />Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as the LORD lives. Lie down until the morning.”<verse eid="RUT 3:13" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="14" style="v" sid="RUT 3:14" />She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.” <verse eid="RUT 3:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="RUT 3:15" />He said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.<verse eid="RUT 3:15" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="16" style="v" sid="RUT 3:16" />When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did it go, my daughter?”</para>
-  <para style="p" vid="RUT 3:16">She told her all that the man had done for her. <verse eid="RUT 3:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="RUT 3:17" />She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’”<verse eid="RUT 3:17" /></para>
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="18" style="v" sid="RUT 3:18" />Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know what will happen; for the man will not rest until he has settled this today.”<verse eid="RUT 3:18" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="RUT 3" />
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-  <book code="ECC" style="id" />
-  <para style="h">Ecclesiastes</para>
-  <para style="toc1">Ecclesiates or, The Preacher</para>
-  <para style="toc2">Ecclesiastes</para>
-  <para style="toc3">Ecc</para>
-  <para style="mt1">Ecclesiastes</para>
-  <para style="mt2">or, The Preacher</para>
-  <chapter number="1" style="c" sid="ECC 1" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 1:1" />The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. <verse eid="ECC 1:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 1:2" />Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes vanity of vanities, and all is vanity. <verse eid="ECC 1:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 1:3" />What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun? <verse eid="ECC 1:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 1:4" />One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever. <verse eid="ECC 1:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 1:5" />The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again, <verse eid="ECC 1:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 1:6" />Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits. <verse eid="ECC 1:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 1:7" />All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again. <verse eid="ECC 1:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 1:8" />All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing. <verse eid="ECC 1:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 1:9" />What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done. <verse eid="ECC 1:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 1:10" />Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us. <verse eid="ECC 1:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 1:11" />There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end. <verse eid="ECC 1:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 1:12" />I Ecclesiastes was king over Israel in Jerusalem, <verse eid="ECC 1:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 1:13" />And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein. <verse eid="ECC 1:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 1:14" />I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit. <verse eid="ECC 1:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 1:15" />The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite. <verse eid="ECC 1:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 1:16" />I have spoken in my heart, saying: Behold I am become great, and have gone beyond all in wisdom, that were before me in Jerusalem: and my mind hath contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned. <verse eid="ECC 1:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 1:17" />And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit, <verse eid="ECC 1:17" /><verse number="18" style="v" sid="ECC 1:18" />Because In much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.<verse eid="ECC 1:18" /></para>
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-  <chapter number="2" style="c" sid="ECC 2" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 2:1" />I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity. <verse eid="ECC 2:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 2:2" />Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived? <verse eid="ECC 2:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 2:3" />I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life. <verse eid="ECC 2:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 2:4" />I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards, <verse eid="ECC 2:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 2:5" />I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds, <verse eid="ECC 2:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 2:6" />And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees, <verse eid="ECC 2:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 2:7" />I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem: <verse eid="ECC 2:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 2:8" />I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine: <verse eid="ECC 2:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 2:9" />And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me. <verse eid="ECC 2:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 2:10" />And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour. <verse eid="ECC 2:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 2:11" />And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun. <verse eid="ECC 2:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 2:12" />I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?) <verse eid="ECC 2:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 2:13" />And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness. <verse eid="ECC 2:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 2:14" />The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike. <verse eid="ECC 2:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 2:15" />And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity. <verse eid="ECC 2:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 2:16" />For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned. <verse eid="ECC 2:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 2:17" />And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit. <verse eid="ECC 2:17" /><verse number="18" style="v" sid="ECC 2:18" />Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, <verse eid="ECC 2:18" /><verse number="19" style="v" sid="ECC 2:19" />Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain? <verse eid="ECC 2:19" /><verse number="20" style="v" sid="ECC 2:20" />Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun. <verse eid="ECC 2:20" /><verse number="21" style="v" sid="ECC 2:21" />For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil. <verse eid="ECC 2:21" /><verse number="22" style="v" sid="ECC 2:22" />For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun? <verse eid="ECC 2:22" /><verse number="23" style="v" sid="ECC 2:23" />All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? <verse eid="ECC 2:23" /><verse number="24" style="v" sid="ECC 2:24" />Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God. <verse eid="ECC 2:24" /><verse number="25" style="v" sid="ECC 2:25" />Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I? <verse eid="ECC 2:25" /><verse number="26" style="v" sid="ECC 2:26" />God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.<verse eid="ECC 2:26" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 2" />
-  <chapter number="3" style="c" sid="ECC 3" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 3:1" />All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven. <verse eid="ECC 3:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 3:2" />A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. <verse eid="ECC 3:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 3:3" />A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build. <verse eid="ECC 3:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 3:4" />A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. <verse eid="ECC 3:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 3:5" />A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. <verse eid="ECC 3:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 3:6" />A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away. <verse eid="ECC 3:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 3:7" />A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak. <verse eid="ECC 3:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 3:8" />A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace. <verse eid="ECC 3:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 3:9" />What hath man more of his labour? <verse eid="ECC 3:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 3:10" />I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it. <verse eid="ECC 3:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 3:11" />He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end. <verse eid="ECC 3:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 3:12" />And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life. <verse eid="ECC 3:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 3:13" />For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God. <verse eid="ECC 3:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 3:14" />I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared. <verse eid="ECC 3:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 3:15" />That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past. <verse eid="ECC 3:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 3:16" />I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity. <verse eid="ECC 3:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 3:17" />And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing. <verse eid="ECC 3:17" /><verse number="18" style="v" sid="ECC 3:18" />I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts. <verse eid="ECC 3:18" /><verse number="19" style="v" sid="ECC 3:19" />Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity. <verse eid="ECC 3:19" /><verse number="20" style="v" sid="ECC 3:20" />And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together. <verse eid="ECC 3:20" /><verse number="21" style="v" sid="ECC 3:21" />Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward? <verse eid="ECC 3:21" /><verse number="22" style="v" sid="ECC 3:22" />And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?<verse eid="ECC 3:22" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 3" />
-  <chapter number="4" style="c" sid="ECC 4" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 4:1" />I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any. <verse eid="ECC 4:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 4:2" />And I praised the dead rather than the living: <verse eid="ECC 4:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 4:3" />And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun. <verse eid="ECC 4:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 4:4" />Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighhour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care. <verse eid="ECC 4:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 4:5" />The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh, saying: <verse eid="ECC 4:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 4:6" />Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind. <verse eid="ECC 4:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 4:7" />Considering I found also another vanity under the sun: <verse eid="ECC 4:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 4:8" />There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation. <verse eid="ECC 4:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 4:9" />It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society: <verse eid="ECC 4:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 4:10" />If one fall he shall be supported by the other: woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to lift him up. <verse eid="ECC 4:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 4:11" />And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed? <verse eid="ECC 4:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 4:12" />And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily broken. <verse eid="ECC 4:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 4:13" />Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter. <verse eid="ECC 4:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 4:14" />Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty. <verse eid="ECC 4:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 4:15" />I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place. <verse eid="ECC 4:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 4:16" />The number of the people, of all that were before him is infinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit. <verse eid="ECC 4:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 4:17" />Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.<verse eid="ECC 4:17" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 4" />
-  <chapter number="5" style="c" sid="ECC 5" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 5:1" />Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. <verse eid="ECC 5:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 5:2" />Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly. <verse eid="ECC 5:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 5:3" />If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it. <verse eid="ECC 5:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 5:4" />And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised. <verse eid="ECC 5:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 5:5" />Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands. <verse eid="ECC 5:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 5:6" />Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God. <verse eid="ECC 5:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 5:7" />If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these: <verse eid="ECC 5:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 5:8" />Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him. <verse eid="ECC 5:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 5:9" />A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity. <verse eid="ECC 5:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 5:10" />Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes? <verse eid="ECC 5:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 5:11" />Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. <verse eid="ECC 5:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 5:12" />There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner. <verse eid="ECC 5:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 5:13" />For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want. <verse eid="ECC 5:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 5:14" />As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour. <verse eid="ECC 5:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 5:15" />A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind? <verse eid="ECC 5:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 5:16" />All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow. <verse eid="ECC 5:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 5:17" />This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion. <verse eid="ECC 5:17" /><verse number="18" style="v" sid="ECC 5:18" />And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God. <verse eid="ECC 5:18" /><verse number="19" style="v" sid="ECC 5:19" />For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,<verse eid="ECC 5:19" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 5" />
-  <chapter number="6" style="c" sid="ECC 6" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 6:1" />There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men: <verse eid="ECC 6:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 6:2" />A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery. <verse eid="ECC 6:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 6:3" />If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he. <verse eid="ECC 6:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 6:4" />For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten. <verse eid="ECC 6:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 6:5" />He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil: <verse eid="ECC 6:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 6:6" />Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place? <verse eid="ECC 6:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 6:7" />All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled. <verse eid="ECC 6:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 6:8" />What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life? <verse eid="ECC 6:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 6:9" />Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit. <verse eid="ECC 6:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 6:10" />He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself. <verse eid="ECC 6:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 6:11" />There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.<verse eid="ECC 6:11" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 6" />
-  <chapter number="7" style="c" sid="ECC 7" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 7:1" />What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun? <verse eid="ECC 7:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 7:2" />A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. <verse eid="ECC 7:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 7:3" />It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come. <verse eid="ECC 7:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 7:4" />Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected. <verse eid="ECC 7:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 7:5" />The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth. <verse eid="ECC 7:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 7:6" />It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools. <verse eid="ECC 7:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 7:7" />For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity. <verse eid="ECC 7:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 7:8" />Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart. <verse eid="ECC 7:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 7:9" />Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous. <verse eid="ECC 7:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 7:10" />Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool. <verse eid="ECC 7:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 7:11" />Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish. <verse eid="ECC 7:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 7:12" />Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun. <verse eid="ECC 7:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 7:13" />For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them. <verse eid="ECC 7:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 7:14" />Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised. <verse eid="ECC 7:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 7:15" />In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint. <verse eid="ECC 7:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 7:16" />These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness. <verse eid="ECC 7:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 7:17" />Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid. <verse eid="ECC 7:17" /><verse number="18" style="v" sid="ECC 7:18" />Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time. <verse eid="ECC 7:18" /><verse number="19" style="v" sid="ECC 7:19" />It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing. <verse eid="ECC 7:19" /><verse number="20" style="v" sid="ECC 7:20" />Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city. <verse eid="ECC 7:20" /><verse number="21" style="v" sid="ECC 7:21" />For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not. <verse eid="ECC 7:21" /><verse number="22" style="v" sid="ECC 7:22" />But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee. <verse eid="ECC 7:22" /><verse number="23" style="v" sid="ECC 7:23" />For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others. <verse eid="ECC 7:23" /><verse number="24" style="v" sid="ECC 7:24" />I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me, <verse eid="ECC 7:24" /><verse number="25" style="v" sid="ECC 7:25" />Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out? <verse eid="ECC 7:25" /><verse number="26" style="v" sid="ECC 7:26" />I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent: <verse eid="ECC 7:26" /><verse number="27" style="v" sid="ECC 7:27" />And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter’s snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her. <verse eid="ECC 7:27" /><verse number="28" style="v" sid="ECC 7:28" />Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account, <verse eid="ECC 7:28" /><verse number="29" style="v" sid="ECC 7:29" />Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found. <verse eid="ECC 7:29" /><verse number="30" style="v" sid="ECC 7:30" />Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?<verse eid="ECC 7:30" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 7" />
-  <chapter number="8" style="c" sid="ECC 8" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 8:1" />The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face. <verse eid="ECC 8:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 8:2" />I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God. <verse eid="ECC 8:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 8:3" />Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him: <verse eid="ECC 8:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 8:4" />And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so? <verse eid="ECC 8:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 8:5" />He that keepeth the commandments shall find no evil. The heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer. <verse eid="ECC 8:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 8:6" />There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man: <verse eid="ECC 8:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 8:7" />Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger. <verse eid="ECC 8:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 8:8" />It is not in man’s power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked. <verse eid="ECC 8:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 8:9" />All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. <verse eid="ECC 8:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 8:10" />I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity. <verse eid="ECC 8:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 8:11" />For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear. <verse eid="ECC 8:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 8:12" />But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face. <verse eid="ECC 8:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 8:13" />But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord. <verse eid="ECC 8:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 8:14" />There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure, as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain. <verse eid="ECC 8:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 8:15" />Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun. <verse eid="ECC 8:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 8:16" />And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes. <verse eid="ECC 8:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 8:17" />And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.<verse eid="ECC 8:17" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 8" />
-  <chapter number="9" style="c" sid="ECC 9" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 9:1" />All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: <verse eid="ECC 9:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 9:2" />But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth. <verse eid="ECC 9:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 9:3" />This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell. <verse eid="ECC 9:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 9:4" />There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion. <verse eid="ECC 9:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 9:5" />For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. <verse eid="ECC 9:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 9:6" />Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun. <verse eid="ECC 9:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 9:7" />Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God. <verse eid="ECC 9:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 9:8" />At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head. <verse eid="ECC 9:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 9:9" />Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun. <verse eid="ECC 9:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 9:10" />Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening. <verse eid="ECC 9:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 9:11" />I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skillful: but time and chance in all. <verse eid="ECC 9:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 9:12" />Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them. <verse eid="ECC 9:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 9:13" />This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great: <verse eid="ECC 9:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 9:14" />A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect. <verse eid="ECC 9:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 9:15" />Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man. <verse eid="ECC 9:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 9:16" />And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard? <verse eid="ECC 9:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 9:17" />The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools. <verse eid="ECC 9:17" /><verse number="18" style="v" sid="ECC 9:18" />Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.<verse eid="ECC 9:18" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 9" />
-  <chapter number="10" style="c" sid="ECC 10" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 10:1" />Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly. <verse eid="ECC 10:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 10:2" />The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand. <verse eid="ECC 10:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 10:3" />Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas be himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools. <verse eid="ECC 10:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 10:4" />If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease. <verse eid="ECC 10:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 10:5" />There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince: <verse eid="ECC 10:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 10:6" />A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath. <verse eid="ECC 10:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 10:7" />I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants. <verse eid="ECC 10:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 10:8" />He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him. <verse eid="ECC 10:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 10:9" />He that removeth stones, shall be hurt by them: and he that cutteth trees, shall be wounded by them. <verse eid="ECC 10:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 10:10" />If the iron be blunt, and be not as before, but be made blunt, with much labour it shall be sharpened: and after industry shall follow wisdom. <verse eid="ECC 10:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 10:11" />If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly. <verse eid="ECC 10:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 10:12" />The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong. <verse eid="ECC 10:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 10:13" />The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error. <verse eid="ECC 10:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 10:14" />A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him? <verse eid="ECC 10:14" /><verse number="15" style="v" sid="ECC 10:15" />The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not bow to go to the city. <verse eid="ECC 10:15" /><verse number="16" style="v" sid="ECC 10:16" />Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning. <verse eid="ECC 10:16" /><verse number="17" style="v" sid="ECC 10:17" />Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness. <verse eid="ECC 10:17" /><verse number="18" style="v" sid="ECC 10:18" />By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through. <verse eid="ECC 10:18" /><verse number="19" style="v" sid="ECC 10:19" />For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money. <verse eid="ECC 10:19" /><verse number="20" style="v" sid="ECC 10:20" />Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou hast said.<verse eid="ECC 10:20" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 10" />
-  <chapter number="11" style="c" sid="ECC 11" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 11:1" />Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again. <verse eid="ECC 11:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 11:2" />Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. <verse eid="ECC 11:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 11:3" />If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain upon the earth. If the tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it shall fall, there shall it be. <verse eid="ECC 11:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 11:4" />He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall never reap. <verse eid="ECC 11:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 11:5" />As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all. <verse eid="ECC 11:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 11:6" />In the morning sow thy seed, and In the evening let not thy hand cease: for thou knowest not which may rather spring up, this or that: and if both together, it shall be the better. <verse eid="ECC 11:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 11:7" />The light is sweet, and it is delightful for the eyes to see the sun. <verse eid="ECC 11:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 11:8" />If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity. <verse eid="ECC 11:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 11:9" />Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment. <verse eid="ECC 11:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 11:10" />Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh. For youth and pleasure are vain.<verse eid="ECC 11:10" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 11" />
-  <chapter number="12" style="c" sid="ECC 12" />
-  <para style="p">
-    <verse number="1" style="v" sid="ECC 12:1" />Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not: <verse eid="ECC 12:1" /><verse number="2" style="v" sid="ECC 12:2" />Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain: <verse eid="ECC 12:2" /><verse number="3" style="v" sid="ECC 12:3" />When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they that look through the holes shall be darkened: <verse eid="ECC 12:3" /><verse number="4" style="v" sid="ECC 12:4" />And they shall shut the doors in the street, when the grinder’s voice shall be low, and they shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall grow deaf. <verse eid="ECC 12:4" /><verse number="5" style="v" sid="ECC 12:5" />And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street. <verse eid="ECC 12:5" /><verse number="6" style="v" sid="ECC 12:6" />Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern, <verse eid="ECC 12:6" /><verse number="7" style="v" sid="ECC 12:7" />And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it. <verse eid="ECC 12:7" /><verse number="8" style="v" sid="ECC 12:8" />Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity. <verse eid="ECC 12:8" /><verse number="9" style="v" sid="ECC 12:9" />And whereas Ecclesiastes was very wise, he taught the people, and declared the things that he had done: and seeking out, he set forth many parables. <verse eid="ECC 12:9" /><verse number="10" style="v" sid="ECC 12:10" />He sought profitable words, and wrote words most right, and full of truth. <verse eid="ECC 12:10" /><verse number="11" style="v" sid="ECC 12:11" />The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd. <verse eid="ECC 12:11" /><verse number="12" style="v" sid="ECC 12:12" />More than these, my son, require not. Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh. <verse eid="ECC 12:12" /><verse number="13" style="v" sid="ECC 12:13" />Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man: <verse eid="ECC 12:13" /><verse number="14" style="v" sid="ECC 12:14" />And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.<verse eid="ECC 12:14" /></para>
-  <chapter eid="ECC 12" />
-</usx>