CHAPTER 3
Man Cennet Hit on the Right Time to Act
1, There is an appointed time for every-thing, and time for every affair underthe heavens.
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,and a time to uprootthe plant.
3. A time to kill, and a time to heal: a time to tear down, and a time to build
4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn,and a time to dance.
5. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them: a time to embraces,
and a time to be far from embraces.
6. A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
7. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak.
8. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
CHAPTER 5
1. Be not hasty in your utterance and let not your heart be quick to make a
promise in God's presence. God is in heaven and you are on earth; therefore
let your words be few.
2, For nightmares * come with many cares, and a fool's utterance with many words.
CHAPTER 7
Critique of Soges on the Day of Advernsity
1. A good name is better than good ointment,* and the day of death the than day of birth.
2. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting,
For that is the end of every man and the living should take it to heart."
3. Sorrow is better than laughter, because when he face is sad the heart grows wiser.
4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in
the house of mirth.
5. It is better to hearken to the wise man's rebuke than to hearken to the song of
fools;
6. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the fool's laughter. This also
is vanity.
7. For oppression can make a fool of a wise man, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
8. Better is the end of speech than its beginning; better is the patient spirit
than the lofty spirit.
9. Do not in spirit become quickly discontented, for discotented. lodges in the
bosom of a fool.
10. Do no say; How is it that former times wre better than these? For it is not in
wisdom that you ask about this.
11. Wisdom and an inheritance ae good, and an advantage to those that see the sun.