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If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether hee rage or laugh, there is no rest.

Who hath ascended vp into heauen, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his sonnes name, if thou canst tell?

1611 marginal noteIohn. 3.13. iob.38.4. psal.104.3 isa. 40.12.

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poore, and steale, and take the name of my God in vaine.

1611 marginal noteHeb. belye thee.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 32.15.

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting vp thy selfe, or if thou hast thought euill, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.

1611 marginal noteIob.21.5. and 39.37. &c. and 40.4.

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a foole? yet shall he haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue laboured, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the Sunne. This is also vanitie.

1611 marginal notePsal.49.11. &c.

For who can eate? or who else can hasten hereunto more then I?

The sleepe of a labouring man is sweete, whether he eate little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe.

¶ For all this I considered in my heart, euen to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their workes, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either loue, or hatred, by all that is before them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. I gaue, or set to my heart.

If the clouds be full of raine, they emptie themselues vpon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the South, or toward the North, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

In the morning sowe thy seede, and in the euening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

1611 marginal noteHeb. shall be right.