What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?

I considered all the living who walk on earth, as well as the successor who would arise in his place.

Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

This is what I also observed about wisdom on earth, and it is a great burden to me:

When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this – animals trampling on my courtyards?

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

Why are your clothes red? Why do you look like someone who has stomped on grapes in a vat?

who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running on flat land they did not stumble.

Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.

As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.

While he was saying this to me, I was flat on the ground and unable to speak.

So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

and those who turn their backs on the Lord and do not want the Lord’s help or guidance.”

a day of trumpet blasts and battle cries. Judgment will fall on the fortified cities and the high corner towers.

“Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.

he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”

I call on you solemnly in the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

The Jews who were in Susa then assembled on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed three hundred men in Susa. But they did not confiscate their property.