The One Year Bible KJV (247 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
1
 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
2
 For the L
ORD
most high
is
terrible;
he is
a great King over all the earth.
3
 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
4
 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
5
 God is gone up with a shout, the L
ORD
with the sound of a trumpet.
6
 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
7
 For God
is
the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
8
 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
9
 The princes of the people are gathered together,
even
the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth
belong
unto God: he is greatly exalted.
16
 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his
riches, and
he that giveth to the rich,
shall
surely
come
to want.
1
 A good name
is
better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
2
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It is
better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that
is
the end of all men; and the living will lay
it
to his heart.
3
 Sorrow
is
better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
4
 The heart of the wise
is
in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools
is
in the house of mirth.
5
Â
It is
better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
6
 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so
is
the laughter of the fool: this also
is
vanity.
7
 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
8
 Better
is
the end of a thing than the beginning thereof:
and
the patient in spirit
is
better than the proud in spirit.
9
 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
10
 Say not thou, What is
the cause
that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
11
 Wisdom
is
good with an inheritance: and
by it there is
profit to them that see the sun.
12
 For wisdom
is
a defence,
and
money
is
a defence: but the excellency of knowledge
is, that
wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
13
 Consider the work of God: for who can make
that
straight, which he hath made crooked?
14
 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
15
 All
things
have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just
man
that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked
man
that prolongeth
his life
in his wickedness.
16
 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
17
 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
18
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It is
good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
19
 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty
men
which are in the city.
20
 For
there is
not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
21
 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
22
 for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
23
 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it
was
far from me.
24
 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
25
 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason
of things,
and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness
and
madness:
26
 and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart
is
snares and nets,
and
her hands
as
bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27
 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher,
counting
one by one, to find out the account:
28
 which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
29
 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
8:
1
 Who
is
as the wise
man?
and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
2
 I
counsel thee
to keep the king's commandment, and
that
in regard of the oath of God.
3
 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
4
 Where the word of a king
is, there is
power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
5
 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
6
 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man
is
great upon him.
7
 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8
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There is
no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither
hath he
power in the day of death: and
there is
no discharge in
that
war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9
 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun:
there is
a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
10
 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this
is
also vanity.
11
 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12
 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his
days
be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
13
 but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong
his
days,
which are
as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
14
 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just
men,
unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked
men,
to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also
is
vanity.
15
 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
16
 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also
there is that
neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17
 then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek
it
out, yet he shall not find
it;
yea farther; though a wise
man
think to know
it,
yet shall he not be able to find
it.
9:
1
 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works,
are
in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred
by
all
that is
before them.
2
 All
things come
alike to all:
there is
one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as
is
the good, so
is
the sinner;
and
he that sweareth, as
he
that feareth an oath.
3
 This
is
an evil among all
things
that are done under the sun, that
there is
one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness
is
in their heart while they live, and after that
they go
to the dead.
4
 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5
 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6
 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any
thing
that is done under the sun.
7
 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
8
 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
9
 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that
is
thy portion in
this
life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
10
 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do
it
with thy might; for
there is
no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
11
 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race
is
not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
12
 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so
are
the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
13
 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it
seemed
great unto me:
14
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there was
a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15
 now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16
 Then said I, Wisdom
is
better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom
is
despised, and his words are not heard.
17
 The words of wise
men are
heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
18
 Wisdom
is
better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.