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Were it not better to eat and drink, and toil only at his own pleasures? These, too, come from God’s hand; (Ecclesiastes 2, 24)
Who wins God’s favour, has wisdom and skill for his reward, and pleasure too; it is the sinner that is doomed to hardship and to thankless care, hoarding and scraping, and all to enrich some heir God loves better! For him frustration, for him the labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 2, 26)
Pitiable indeed I found it, this task God has given to mankind; (Ecclesiastes 3, 10)
that gift at least God has granted him, to eat and drink and see his toil rewarded. (Ecclesiastes 3, 13)
But be sure all God has made will remain for ever as he made it; there is no adding to it, no taking away from it; so he will command our reverence. (Ecclesiastes 3, 14)
and I told myself that God would give judgement one day between the just and the sinners, and all things would reach their appointed end then.✻ (Ecclesiastes 3, 17)
I told myself that God’s purpose with the sons of men was to test them …… And that they might see they were only like the beasts …✻ (Ecclesiastes 3, 18)
Look well what thou art doing when thou goest into God’s house; present thyself there in a spirit of obedience. Obedience is far better than the sacrifice made by fools, that are guilty of unwitting sacrilege.✻ (Ecclesiastes 4, 17)
When thou standest in God’s presence, do not pour out with rash haste all that is in thy heart. God sees as heaven sees, thou as earth; few words are best. (Ecclesiastes 5, 1)
Vow to God if thou utterest, without delay perform it, he will have no light and rash promises; vow made must be vow paid. (Ecclesiastes 5, 3)
Wouldst thou defile thy whole nature through the tongue’s fault? Wouldst thou find thyself saying, with God’s angel to hear thee, No thought I gave to it?✻ Little wonder if God disappoints every ambition of the man who speaks so. (Ecclesiastes 5, 5)
Dreams, empty dreams, led to those glib promises of thine; content thyself rather with the fear of God.✻ (Ecclesiastes 5, 6)
