The Koine Bible

And remember your Creator in the days of your youth, until the days of evil do not come, and the years draw near in which you will say, I have no pleasure in them.

until the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are not darkened, and the clouds return after the rain

in the day when the keepers of the house shall be shaken and the men of strength shall be bent and the grinding women shall cease because they have become few, and those who look through the windows shall grow dark

and they will shut the doors in the market, when the voice that sounds is feeble, and it will rise up at the voice of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song will be brought low

and also from on high they shall see, and terrors in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall grow fat, and the caperberry shall be dispersed, because the man has gone to the house of his age, and those who are mourning have gone around in the market-place

until the silver cord is snapped and the golden lamp is crushed and the pitcher is broken at the spring and the wheel is broken at the cistern

and the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, all is vanity

And, in addition, because Ecclesiastes became wise, he still taught knowledge to the people, and he sought out and set in order many proverbs.

The Preacher sought many things to find words of will, and written words of uprightness, words of truth.

The words of the wise are like goads, and like planted nails, which were given from gatherings by one shepherd, and more than these from them.

My son, beware of making many books; there is no end, and much study is a weariness of flesh.

The end of the matter, everything is heard: fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every overlooked thing, whether good and whether evil.