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Ecclesiastes 7:14

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.

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And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?

A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:

Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.

Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear, O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?

The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.

And when they had ordained to them priests in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.

The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle: and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.

Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity.

Then if they do penance in their heart in the place of captivity, and being converted make supplication to thee in their captivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have committed wickedness:

That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given thee, and thy house; thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.

And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.

This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.

Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?




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