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Ecclesiastes (Translated) (view source)
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|What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
|What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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|What profit does man make from his labor?
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|I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
|I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
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|I have seen the trying ordeal that God gave to the sons of men to make them work.
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|He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
|He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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|He made everything beautiful before he gave the Earth to man, he set this world in mans heart, so that man could discover the work that God did to make it beautiful.
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|I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
|I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
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|I know that they are no good at all, except for making men rejoice, and doing so all their lives.
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|And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
|And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
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|Every man should labor and every man that labors should eat and drink and enjoy those fruits, enjoying the fruits of your labor is a gift from God.
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|Considerably changed this passage, but I think I delivered the point
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|I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
|I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
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|I know that what God does is done forever. Nothing can be added to or taken away from God's works. God does this so that man should fear him.
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|I do not know if I quite got hold of this one
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|That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
|That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
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|The way things were is the way things are now. The future will be like the past too, God requires things to stay as they were.
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|And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
|And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
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|I saw an earthly place of judgement, were wickedness could be found, and a place of righteousness where Gross injustice could be seen.
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|No stock can be put in earthly things, even those which appear to be most just can and do harbor wickedness
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|I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
|I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
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|I realized that God will judge the righteous and the wicked, there is a time there for every purpose and every work.
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|I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
|I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
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|I realized that to wealth of the sons of men, that God might give it to them, so that they might see that they are just another of God's animals.
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|I changed beasts to God's animals because beast has picked up a connotation of brutishness since the time of the KJV. I didn't want to just say animal because that might give the wrong impression, I also figured I could get away with adding an extra "God" to the CBP.
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|For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
|For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
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|For the sons of men will meet the same fate as all of God's animal, even one thing happens to them, as one dies so does the other. They all breath, Man has no prestige over the rest of God's animals. All is vanity.
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|I took preeminence to mean prestige because God gave man dominion over the animals in Genesis.
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|All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
|All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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|All of them go to one place, All of them are made from dust and all of them will become dust.
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|Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
|Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
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|Who knows that the Spirit of man returns to God while the spirit of God's animals goes down to the earth?
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|"Who knows" is a little weak
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|Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
|Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
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|At this I realized that there is nothing better than for a man to rejoice in his own work, for that is what he gets from it. No one can guarantee to bring him back to see what will become of them after he is gone.
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==Chapter 4==
==Chapter 4==