Ecclesiastes 9

1 For all this I have given to heart my and to make clear all this that the righteous and the wise and deeds their [are] in [the] hand of God both love as well as hatred not [is] knowing humankind everything [is] before them.

2 All [is] just as for all fate one [belongs] to the righteous and to the wicked to the good (and to the evil *X) and to the clean and to the unclean and to the [one who] sacrifices and to [one] who not he [is] sacrificing as the good [person] as the sinner the [one who] swears an oath just as an oath [one] fearing.

3 This - [is] an evil in all that it is done under the sun for fate one [belongs] to everyone and also [the] heart of [the] children of humankind [is] full evil and madness [is] in heart their in lives their and after it to the dead.

4 For who? [is [the] one] who (he is united *QK) to all the living there [is] hope for to a dog living it [is] good more than the lion dead.

5 For the living [are] knowing that they will die and the dead not they [are] knowing anything and not still [belongs] to them a reward for it is forgotten memory their.

6 Both love their as well as hatred their as well as envy their already it has perished and a portion not [belongs] to them again for ever in all that it is done under the sun.

7 Go eat with gladness food your and drink with a heart good wine your for already he has taken pleasure in God deeds your.

8 At every time let them be clothes your white and oil on head your may not it be lacking.

9 See life with a wife whom you love all [the] days of [the] life of futility your which he has given to you under the sun all [the] days of futility your for that [is] portion your in life and in toil your which you [are] a laborer under the sun.

10 All that it finds hand your to do with strength your do for there not [is] work and explanation and knowledge and wisdom in Sheol where you [are] going there towards. (Sheol h7585)

11 I returned and I saw under the sun that not [belongs] to the swift the race and not [belongs] to the mighty [men] the battle and also not [belongs] to wise [people] food and also not [belongs] to the understanding wealth and also not [belongs] to the knowledgeable favor for time and chance it happens to all of them.

12 For also not he knows humankind time his like fish that [are] caught in a net evil and like birds that are caught in snare like them [are] ensnared [the] children of humankind to a time evil when that falls on them suddenly.

13 Also this I have seen wisdom under the sun and [was] great it to me.

14 A city small and men in it [were] few and he came against it a king great and he surrounded it and he built on it siege works great.

15 And someone found in it a man poor wise and he delivered he the city by wisdom his and anyone not he remembered the man poor that.

16 And I said I [is] good wisdom more than strength and [the] wisdom of the poor [person] [is] despised and words his not they [are] listened to.

17 [the] words of Wise [people] in quietness [are] heard more than [the] cry of a ruler among fools.

18 [is] good Wisdom more than weapons of war and a sinner one he will destroy good much.