Holy Bible. Old Testament. Ecclesiastes

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man for God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

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

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.