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Bible Reading for June 11

Ecclesiastes 4
[1] So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under
the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no
comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they
had no comforter.
[2] Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the
living which are yet alive.
[3] Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not
seen the evil work that is done under the sun. [4] Again, I considered all
travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his
neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. [5] The fool foldeth
his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. [6] Better is an handful with
quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
[7] Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. [8] There is one
alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother:
yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with
riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of
good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. [9] Two are better
than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
[10] For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that
is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. [11]
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm
alone?
[12] And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
threefold cord is not quickly broken. [13] Better is a poor and a wise
child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
[14] For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in
his kingdom becometh poor.
[15] I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second
child that shall stand up in his stead. [16] There is no end of all the
people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after
shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of
spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5
[1] Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to
hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they
do evil.
[2] Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter
any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore
let thy words be few.
[3] For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's
voice is known by multitude of words.
[4] When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no
pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. [5] Better is it that
thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
[6] Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before
the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy
voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? [7] For in the multitude of
dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
[8] If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of
judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that
is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. [9]
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by
the field.
[10] He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that
loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. [11] When goods
increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the
owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? [12] The
sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the
abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. [13] There is a sore
evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners
thereof to their hurt. [14] But those riches perish by evil travail: and he
begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
[15] As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as
he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in
his hand.
[16] And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall
he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? [17] All
his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with
his sickness.
[18] Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat
and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under
the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his
portion. [19] Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and
hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to
rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
[20] For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God
answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 6
[1] There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
[2] A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he
wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him
not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it
is an evil disease.
[3] If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the
days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also
that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
[4] For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name
shall be covered with darkness.
[5] Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more
rest than the other.
[6] Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no
good: do not all go to one place?
[7] All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
[8] For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that
knoweth 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 spirit. [10] That which hath 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 is man the better?
[12] For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his
vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall
be after him under the sun?

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