RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

say before the heavenly malach, that it was an error: why
should Elohim be angry at your voice, and destroy the
work of your hands?
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there
are also divers vanities: rather fear Elohim. 4128
8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent
perverting of mishpat and justice in a province, marvel
not at the matter; for he that is higher than the highest
regards this; and there are higher ones over them.
9 Moreover the increase of the earth is for all: the melech
himself is served by the field.
10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver;
nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also
vanity.
11 When goods increase, those who eat them are
increased: and what tov is there to the owners, except the
beholding of them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a working man is sweet, whether he eats
little, or much: but the abundance of the rich will not
allow him to sleep.
13 There is a sore evil that I have seen under the sun,
namely, riches kept for its owners to do evil.
14 But those riches perish by evil use: and he begets a
son, and there is nothing in his hand.
15 As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall
he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his
labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he
came into the olam hazeh, so shall he go: and what profit
has he that has labored for the wind?
17 All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much
sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
18 Behold that which I have seen: it is tov and pleasant
for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the tov of all his
labor that he toils under the sun all the days of his
chayim, which Elohim gives him: for it is his portion.
19 Every man also to whom Elohim has given riches and
wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take
his portion, and to gilah in his labor; this is the gift of
Elohim.
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his
chayim; because Elohim answers him in the simcha of his
lev.
6 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is
common among men:
2 A man to whom Elohim has given riches, wealth, and
honor, so that he wants nothing for his being of all that he
desires, yet if Elohim gives him not power to eat it, but a
ger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3 If a man beget a hundred children, and lives many
years, so that the days of his years are many, and if his
being is not filled with tov, and also if he has no burial; I
say, that an untimely birth is better than him.
4 For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness,
and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5 Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known anything:
this one has more rest than the other.
6 Yes, though he lives a thousand years twice over, yet he
has seen no tov: do not all go to one place?
7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the
appetite is not filled.
8 For what has the wise more than the fool? What
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advantage has the poor, who knows to walk before the
living?
9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the
desire: this is also vanity and vexation of ruach.
10 That which has been is named already, and it is known
that it is man: neither may he contend with Him that is
mightier than he.
11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what
advantage has the man?
12 For who knows what is tov for man in this chayim, all
the days of his vain chayim that he spends as a shadow?
For who can declare to a man what shall be after him
under the sun?
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A tov name is better than precious oil; and the day of
death than the day of one’s birth.
2 It is better to go to the bayit of mourning, than to go to
the bayit of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the
living will take it to lev.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the
countenance the lev is made better.
4 The lev of the wise is in the bayit of mourning; but the
lev of fools is in the bayit of gilah.
5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man
to hear the shir 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 makes a wise man mad; and a bribe
destroys the lev.
8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it: and
the patient in ruach is better than the proud in ruach.
9 Be not hasty in your ruach to be angry: for anger rests
in the bosom of fools.
10 Don’t you say, What is the cause that the former days
were better than these? For you do not inquire wisely
concerning this.
11 Chochmah is tov with an inheritance: and by it there is
profit to them that see the sun.
12 For chochmah is a defense, and money is a defense:
but the excellency of da’at is, that chochmah gives
chayim to them that have it.
13 Consider the work of Elohim: for who can make
straight, what He has made crooked?
14 In the day of prosperity be full of simcha, but in the
day of adversity consider: Elohim also has appointed one
as well as 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 perishes in his tzedakah, and there is a
wicked man that prolongs his chayim in his evil.
16 Be not over tzadik; neither make yourself over wise:
why should you destroy yourself? 4129
17 Be not wicked overmuch, neither be foolish: why
should you die before your time?
18 It is tov that you should take hold of this; yes, also
from this withdraw not your hand: for he that fears
Elohim shall follow all these things.
19 Chochmah strengthens the wise more than ten mighty
men who are in the city.
20 For there is not a just man upon earth who does tov,
and sins not. 4130
21 Also take no heed to all words that are spoken; lest
you hear your eved curse you: