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Ecclesiastes 2:14

Young's Literal Translation 1862

The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

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They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

Their heart `is': Their houses `are' to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

The wisdom of the prudent `is' to understand his way, And the folly of fools `is' deceit.

The face of the intelligent `is' to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.

That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.

And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.

Who `is' as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift `is' the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

And I said, `Better `is' wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --

and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.




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