| 1 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is' power, and they have no comforter. |
| 2 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive. |
| 3 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun. |
| 4 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit. |
| 5 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh: |
| 6 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData `Better `is' a handful `with' quietness, than two handfuls `with' labour and vexation of spirit.' |
| 7 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun: |
| 8 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail. |
| 9 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. |
| 10 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up! |
| 11 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat? |
| 12 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken. |
| 13 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more. |
| 14 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor. |
| 15 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place; |
| 16 |
fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit. |
