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There is no man hath known all things before their face : 

 Perplexity in them all. 



2 There is one ending to the righteous and impious, 

 To the good and to the wicked : 



To the clean and the unclean, 



To the sacrificer, and to him that sacriflceth not : 



As is the good, so is the sinner : 



As the swearer, so the one fearing an oath. 



SOLOMON. 



3 This were an evil in all done under the sun 

 That tliere were one end to all. 



And indeed the heart of the sons of men has been filled with evil : 

 And madness is in their hearts during their life. 

 And after them among the dead. 



4 For who is He that gives to all the living? 



TYRIAN. 



There is hope for the living dog : 

 He is better than the dead lion. 



5 For the living know that they shall die. 

 But the dead know not anything. 

 And there is no longer for them a hire, 

 For their memory has been blotted out. 



6 And even their love and their hate. 

 And their desire has perished. 

 And there is no portion still forever 

 In all done under the sun. 



7 Go : eat in mirth thy bread : 

 Drink in good heart thy wine : 

 God is well pleased with thy doings : 



8 Be clothed at every season in white garments, 

 And stint not oil on thy head : 



9 And see life with the wife whom thou loves.t. 

 All the days of the life of thy perplexity, 

 Which has been given thee under the sun ; 

 For this is thy portion in thy life. 



And in the labor thou laborest under the sun (!) 



10 Whatsoever thy hand flndelh to do 

 Do it with thy might 



For there is no deed nor reasoning 



Nor knowledge nor wisdom 



In Hades, whither thou goest (!) 



SOLOMON. 



11 I returned : and saw under the sun 

 That not to the swift is the race. 



