16 hWoe to thee, O land, when ithy king is ja child, and thy princes keat in the morning! 17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes leat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

18 By much slothfulness the building mdecayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house ndroppeth through.

19 A feast is made for laughter, and owine †maketh merry: but pmoney answereth all things.

20 qCurse not the king, no not in thy ||thought; and curse not the rich rin thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and sthat which hath wings shall tell the matter.

11 Cast thy bread a†upon the waters: bfor thou shalt find it after many days. 2 cGive a portion to dseven, and also to eight; efor thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. 3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the fsouth, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and ghe that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the hspirit, nor ihow the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. 6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening kwithhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether †shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be lalike good.

7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to mbehold the sun: 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember nthe days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

9 oRejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy pyouth, and qwalk in the ways of thine heart, and in rthe sight of thine eyes: sbut know thou, that for all these things tGod will bring thee into judgment. 10 Therefore remove ||sorrow from thy heart, and uput away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

12 Remember now thy Creator ain the days of thy byouth, swhile cthe evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when dthou shalt say, I have no epleasure in them; 2 sWhile the sun, or fthe light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall gtremble, and the hstrong men shall bow themselves, and ||the grinders cease because they are few, and ithose that look out of the windows be darkened, 4 And jthe doors shall be shut in the kstreets, when lthe sound of the grinding mis low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all dthe daughters of musick shall be mbrought low; 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall nflourish, and the ograsshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his plong qhome, and rthe mourners go about the kstreets: 6 sOr ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden tbowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 Then shall uthe dust return to the earth as it was: and xthe spirit shall return unto God ywho gave it.

8 zVanity of vanities, saith the apreacher; all is vanity.

9 And ||bmoreover, because the apreacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and cset in order dmany proverbs. 10 The apreacher sought to find out †acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as enails ffastened by the masters of gassemblies, which are given from hone shepherd. 12 And bfurther, by these, my son, ibe admonished: kof making many books there is no end; and lmuch ||study is a weariness of the flesh.

13 ||Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: mFear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For nGod shall bring every work into ojudgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.