(Ecclesiastes 7:15, 3:14, 2:12, 2:2, 2:17, 2:19, Isaiah 1:16, Song of Solomon 8:7, Proverbs 3:3, Isaiah 1:18, Song of Solomon 8:7, Proverbs 3:3, Isaiah 1:18, Song of Solomon 8:6, Ecclesiastes 6:9, Psalms 25)
I have seen everything in my days of vanity: There is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, And there is a wicked man who prolongs life in his wickedness. I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.
Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly: (For what can the man do who succeeds the king? -Only what he has already done. )
I said to laughter - "Madness!"; and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?
Yet, he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
"Come now, and let us reason together, "Say's the Lord, "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean: Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil, Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised. Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of our heart, Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon our arm; for love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; It's flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. Amen and Amen.
I have seen everything in my days of vanity: There is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, And there is a wicked man who prolongs life in his wickedness. I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.
Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly: (For what can the man do who succeeds the king? -Only what he has already done. )
I said to laughter - "Madness!"; and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?
Yet, he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
"Come now, and let us reason together, "Say's the Lord, "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean: Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil, Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised. Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of our heart, Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon our arm; for love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; It's flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. Amen and Amen.
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