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Better far, by my way of it, that a man should eat and drink and enjoy the revenues of his own labour, here under the sun, as long as God gives him life; what more can he claim? (Ecclesiastes 5, 17)
God’s gift it is, if a man has wealth and goods and freedom to enjoy them, taking what comes to him and profiting by what he has earned. (Ecclesiastes 5, 18)
Few be his days or many, he regards little, so long as God gives his heart content. (Ecclesiastes 5, 19)
God gives a man wealth, and goods, and state, till there is nothing more left for his appetites to desire; and then God denies him the enjoyment of all this, throws the coveted morsel to a stranger instead; here is frustration, here is cold comfort indeed. (Ecclesiastes 6, 2)
Mark well God’s doings; where he looks askance, none may set the crooked straight. (Ecclesiastes 7, 14)
Come good times, accept the good they bring; come evil, let them never take thee unawares; bethink thee, that God has balanced these against those, and will have no man repine over his lot. (Ecclesiastes 7, 15)
To piety thou must needs cling, yet live by that other caution too; fear God, and thou hast left no duty unfulfilled.✻ (Ecclesiastes 7, 19)
And this I have ascertained; death itself is not so cruel as woman’s heart that wheedles and beguiles, as woman’s clutches that release their captive never. God’s friends escape her; of sinners she makes an easy prey. (Ecclesiastes 7, 27)
Of this, beyond all else, I have satisfied myself; man’s nature was simple enough when God made him, and these endless questions are of his own devising. (Ecclesiastes 7, 30)
Mine to do a king’s bidding, to hold fast by an oath taken in the name of God. (Ecclesiastes 8, 2)
I have seen godless men go peacefully to the grave, that had lived their lives out in haunts of holiness, and won the name of good men from their fellow citizens; here, too, is frustration.✻ (Ecclesiastes 8, 10)
And yet, though the sinner presume on the divine patience that has borne with a hundred misdeeds, I know well enough that blessings are for those who fear God, who fear his frown. (Ecclesiastes 8, 12)
