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Do as thou art bidden, and fear no harm. A time will come, the wise man knows, when he shall win a hearing; (Ecclesiastes 8, 5)
Should I cudgel my wits to grow wise, and know the meaning of all earth’s tasks; be like the men that allow their eyes no sleep, day or night? (Ecclesiastes 8, 16)
Nay, I understood too well that God’s dealings with man, here under the sun, are past all accounting for; the more a man labours to read that riddle, the less he finds out, and he least of all, that boasts himself wise in the reading of it. (Ecclesiastes 8, 17)
All this, too, I pondered in my heart, and would spare no pains to find out the meaning of it. Here are upright men and wise; and every task of theirs is in God’s keeping, nor can any tell whether they have earned his love, or his displeasure! (Ecclesiastes 9, 1)
And here, too, is wise warning, most wise, as I judge it. (Ecclesiastes 9, 13)
To such a city, how came relief? By the wise counsel of one poor man that had his wits about him. And was there anyone, think you, that remembered the poor man afterwards? Not one. (Ecclesiastes 9, 15)
A wise man’s whisper carries further than great outcry from a king of fools. (Ecclesiastes 9, 17)
The fool’s wits are astray; the wise man’s right is to him left.✻ (Ecclesiastes 10, 2)
Blunt tool that has grown dull from long disuse shall cost thee pains a many;✻if thou hadst been wise sooner, thou shouldst have toiled less.✻ (Ecclesiastes 10, 10)
Wise utterance wins favour; the fool that opens his mouth does but ruin himself, (Ecclesiastes 10, 12)
Sharp goads they are to sting us, sharp nails driven deep home, these wise words left to us by many masters, but all echoing one shepherd’s voice. (Ecclesiastes 12, 11)
A seniority there is that claims reverence, owing nothing to time, not measured by the lapse of years; count a man grey-haired when he is wise, (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 8)
