Wine {is} a mocker, strong drink {is} raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

{It is} not for kings, O Lemuel, {it is} not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this {is} the whole {duty} of man. {Let...: or, The end of the matter, even all that hath been heard, is}

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}

If a man die, shall he live {again}? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

{It is} good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

{There is} nothing better for a man, {than} that he should eat and drink, and {that} he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it {was} from the hand of God. {should make...: or, delight his senses}

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason {of things}, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness {and} madness: {I applied...: Heb. I and mine heart compassed}

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale {that is told}. {passed...: Heb. turned away} {as a...: or, as a meditation}

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart {was} merry within him, for he {was} very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

I know that {there is} no good in them, but for {a man} to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

To every {thing there is} a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this {is} the whole {duty} of man. {Let...: or, The end of the matter, even all that hath been heard, is}

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

What man {is he that} desireth life, {and} loveth {many} days, that he may see good?

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what {is} man the better?

{There be} many that say, Who will shew us {any} good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.