Questions

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8323	2:25. Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
8323	3:21. Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
8323	A man can not tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
8323	All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
8323	Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
8323	And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom?
8323	And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?
8323	And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?
8323	And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?
8323	And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
8323	For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?
8323	For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?
8323	I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly,( What is man, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)
8323	Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours?
8323	Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?
8323	Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
8323	Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?
8323	Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now?
8323	What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?
8323	What hath man more of his labour?
8323	What hath the wise man more than the fool?
8323	What is it that hath been done?
8323	What is it that hath been?
8323	What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
8323	Who is as the wise man?
8323	and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
8323	and who hath known the resolution of the word?
8248	001:003 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
8248	001:010 Is there a thing of which it may be said,"Behold, this is new?"
8248	002:002 I said of laughter,"It is foolishness;"and of mirth,"What does it accomplish?"
8248	002:012 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king''s successor do?
8248	002:015 Then said I in my heart,"As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?"
8248	002:019 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?
8248	002:022 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
8248	002:025 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
8248	003:009 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
8248	003:021 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"
8248	004:011 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
8248	005:011 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
8248	006:006 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, do n''t all go to one place?
8248	006:008 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool?
8248	006:012 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow?
8248	007:010 Do n''t say,"Why were the former days better than these?"
8248	007:013 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
8248	008:001 Who is like the wise man?
8248	008:007 For he does n''t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
8248	And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
8248	And who knows the interpretation of a thing?
8248	For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
8248	For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?
8248	Man does n''t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
8248	What does that profit man?
8248	What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
8248	Who can find it out?
8248	Who can say to him,"What are you doing?"
8248	Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
8248	Why should you destroy yourself?
8248	Why should you die before your time?
8021	21:001:003 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
8021	21:001:010 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?
8021	21:002:002 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
8021	21:002:012 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king?
8021	21:002:015 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise?
8021	21:002:019 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool?
8021	21:002:022 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
8021	21:002:025 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
8021	21:003:009 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
8021	21:003:021 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
8021	21:004:011 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
8021	21:005:016 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?
8021	21:006:006 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
8021	21:006:008 For what hath the wise more than the fool?
8021	21:006:011 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
8021	21:006:012 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?
8021	21:007:010 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?
8021	21:007:013 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
8021	21:007:016 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
8021	21:007:017 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
8021	21:007:024 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
8021	21:008:001 Who is as the wise man?
8021	21:008:004 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
8021	21:008:007 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8021	21:010:014 A fool also is full of words: a man can not tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
8021	And how dieth the wise man?
8021	and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?
8021	for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
8021	what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
39913	But why,urges the pessimist,"did He bring me into the world on these hard terms?"
39913	The cock and the owl both wait for morning: the light brings joy to me, says the cock, but what are_ you_ waiting for?
39913	Tsze- kung asked, saying,''Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one''s life?'' 39913 When did he live, and what place did he fill?"
39913	Who is he,we ask,"and what?"
39913	Who is wise? 39913 [ 25] For what intent, then, does his voice break the long silence?
39913	(_ d_) But now if, like Coheleth, we follow these men to the Temple, what is the scene that meets our eye?
39913	--in other words,"What is the true ideal, and what the chief good, of man?"
39913	1 Who is like the wise man?
39913	1):--who has not met such a hot- headed want- wit in, for example, the lobbies of the House of Commons?
39913	10 Say not,"How is it that former days were better than these?"
39913	11 Moreover, if two sleep together, they are warm; But he that is alone, how can he be warm?
39913	12),"Art not_ Thou_ from everlasting, O Lord our God, our Holy One?
39913	14 The fool is full of words, Though no man knoweth what shall be, Either here or hereafter: And who can tell him?
39913	15 Therefore I spake with my heart:"A fate like that of the fool will befall me, even me; To what end, then, am I wiser?"
39913	2 I say then, Obey the king''s commandment, And the rather because of the oath of fealty: 8?
39913	3);"Do you think, Sacian, that I live with more pleasure the more I possess?...
39913	4 For the word of a king is mighty; And who shall say to him,"What doest thou?"
39913	4 For who is exempted?
39913	6 And if he live twice a thousand years and see no good:-- Do not both go to the same place?
39913	8)?
39913	And as what did He bring you?
39913	And do the best men always gain the highest place and honour?
39913	And how can he be in"happy plight"who is"debarred the benefit of rest?
39913	And if not,( 2) Will that moderate provision for the present and for the future to which the more prudent restrict their aim?
39913	And if there had been only one, how could he speak of"all"who preceded him?
39913	And if we ask, What were the motives which inspired this life of consummate and unparalleled excellence?
39913	And shall we envy the wealthy merchant whose two hands are thus"full of labour and vexation of spirit"?
39913	And to pleasure, What canst thou do?
39913	And what advantage is there in that?
39913	And what is the conclusion which he is at such pains to enforce?
39913	And who can tell what shall be after him under the sun?
39913	And who like him that understandeth the interpretation of this saying?
39913	Are all our workmen diligent and all our masters fair?
39913	Are no false measures and balances known in our markets, and no frauds on our exchanges?
39913	Are none of our homes dungeons, with fathers and husbands for jailors?
39913	Are there no hypocrites in our Churches"that with devotion''s visage sugar o''er"a corrupt heart?
39913	Are they not sound arguments?
39913	Are we never to relax into mirth, never to look forward to a time in which reward will be more exactly adjusted to service?
39913	Are we not sadder, if wiser, men for our brief frenzy?
39913	At what conclusion will he arrive?
39913	But are we even yet prepared to welcome it and to lay hold of it?
39913	But even this, I saw, cometh from God; 25 For who can eat, And who enjoy himself, apart from Him?
39913	But glance at the men who are there?
39913	But has it?
39913	But how do we know that he has suffered his riches to take an undue place in his regard?
39913	But how would he go about to acquire his good name?
39913	But if any ask,"Why has he renounced the pursuit of that wealth on which many are bent who are less capable of using it than he?"
39913	But if any man lift the question into a more sincere and noble form by asking,"_ How_ may life be made worth living, or_ best_ worth living?"
39913	But is all our life to be taken up in meeting the claims of Duty and of Charity?
39913	But is not this, after all, only a refined selfishness?
39913	But is the thought of Judgment to be no check on our pleasures?
39913	But that is an appeal to fear-- is it not?
39913	But though they do not reason out a conclusion so sombre and depressing, do they not practically acquiesce in it?
39913	But was their course, after all, one which calls for censure?
39913	But what checks, what correctives, what remedies, would the Preacher have us apply to the diseased tendencies of the time?
39913	But what comfort for them is there in that?
39913	But who were the people, and what were the social and political conditions of the people, among whom the Hebrew captives lived?
39913	But why should we fear that, if it will make us perfect?
39913	But why should we fear that, if it will take us home to our Father?
39913	But why?
39913	But, soft; is not our man of men becoming a mere man of pleasure?
39913	But_ are_ these ineffable spiritual benefits"above all"else to them?
39913	Can he not be content with it?
39913	Can we hope to find a more solid and enduring Good?
39913	Can you hope to find the true Good in a life whose aims are so sordid, whose motives so selfish?
39913	Do none of our"intelligent lack bread,"nor any of the learned favour?
39913	Do they care for"the means of grace"as much even as for the state of the market, or for"the hope of glory"as much as for success or promotion?
39913	Do we never hear, as we stand without, the sound of cruel blows and the shrieks of tortured captives?
39913	Do we not mourn, our after life through, over energies wasted and opportunities lost?
39913	Do we thus limit and degrade the moral ideal, or represent him as degrading and limiting it?
39913	Do you care to be like that?
39913	Do you detect no signs of weariness and perfunctoriness?
39913	Do you hear no vows which will never be paid, and which they do not intend to pay even when they make them?
39913	Does the Preacher supply us with such motives as we need?
39913	For how are we to be cheerful and dutiful and kind except as we obey the commandments of God in whatever form they may have been revealed?
39913	For if we ask,"Why, O Preacher, has your pencil laboured to depict the terrors of a tempest?"
39913	For if, as we close our study of this Section of the Book, we ask,"What good advice does the Preacher offer that we can take and act upon?"
39913	For what is it that animates such a pursuit save distrust in the providence of God?
39913	For what profit hath he who laboureth for the wind?
39913	God has put eternity into it: and how can that which is immortal be contented with the lucky haps and comfortable conditions of time?
39913	God knows us as we are already: is it so very much worse that we should know ourselves, and that our neighbours should know us?
39913	Has he not achieved the Quest?
39913	Has the world ever produced a literature so noble, so pure, so lofty and heroic in its animating spirit, as that of the Hebrew historians and poets?
39913	He can now say to his soul,"What hast thou to do with sorrow Or the injuries of to- morrow?"
39913	How can you expect me to be better than great saints and men after God''s own heart?"
39913	How shall men of business save themselves from being absorbed in its interests and affairs?
39913	How should it help them, to be beguiled into condemning themselves?
39913	If I marry a woman simply or mainly for her money, what worse degradation can I inflict on her or on myself?
39913	If among our"secrets"there be many things evil, are there not at least some that are good?
39913	If it is far from their thoughts, do they not_ live_ in its close neighbourhood?
39913	If we are glad to know so much of him, we can not but ask, What has all this to do with the quest of the Chief Good?
39913	If, for example, the average reader of the Bible were asked, Who wrote this Scripture?
39913	Is it always the swift who win the race, and the strong who carry off the honours of the battle?
39913	Is it as inciting us to this impossible perfection that the Preacher bids us"fear God and keep his commandments"?
39913	Is it not as accurate a delineation of our life as it could be of any ancient form of life?
39913	Is not his sad verdict as true as it is sad?
39913	Is not that a true picture, a picture true to life?
39913	Is not the description as true to modern experience as to that of"the antique world"?
39913	Is not this true wisdom?
39913	Is not"the husbandman whose sleep is sweet, whether he eat little or much,"better off than he?
39913	Is there no short cut to it?
39913	It is said of an English satirist that when any friend confessed himself in trouble and asked his advice, his first question was,"Who is she?"
39913	It would be to- day and here; but was it there and on that far- distant yesterday?
39913	Might he not well take that tone in a time so out of joint, so lowering, so dark?
39913	Nay, has not even the sluggard who, so long as he hath meat, foldeth his hands in quiet, a truer enjoyment of his life?
39913	Nay, why should we care to alter or modify the social order?
39913	Now I make my appeal to those who daily enter the world of business-- is not this the tone of that world?
39913	Now if the poor wise man have to attend the durbar, or sit in the divan, of a foolish capricious despot, how should he bear himself?
39913	Of the pessimists of his time he demands,"Was it not God who brought you here?
39913	Of what ethical mood is this pathetic note the expression?
39913	Of what use, then, was it for men to"kick against the goads,"to attempt to modify immutable ordinances?
39913	Ought we, then, to dread, ought we not rather to desire, the judgments by which we are corrected, purified, saved?
39913	Riches may come and go-- what else have they wings for?
39913	Shall I have the thought To think on this; and shall I lack the thought That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?"
39913	Should not we ourselves be thankful to hear them when the day''s work was done, or even while it was doing?
39913	Should we be saddened by them, or comforted?
39913	So long as he can do this, why should he not be bright and gay?
39913	The Master said,''Is not_ reciprocity_ such a word?
39913	The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes"?
39913	The questions he now asks and answers are, in effect,( 1) Will Wealth confer the good, the tranquil and enduring satisfaction which men seek?
39913	There be many that say,"Who will show us any gold?"
39913	There were many among them who, as their thoughts circled round the mystery of death, could only cry,"Is this_ the end_?
39913	Unless you are very very careful, you will damage your reputation; and if you do that, how can you hope to get on?"
39913	Was it not as a mortal?
39913	Was not the fault in the eyes of the seeker rather than in the faces into which he peered?
39913	Was such a life, mounting to such a close, a thing to long for and toil for?
39913	What advantage, then, is there in saying,"Be kind, be dutiful, be cheerful,"over saying,"Obey the laws of God"?
39913	What did these Masters teach?
39913	What is it that makes their worship formal and insincere?
39913	What is it that we fear?
39913	What prompts his despairing cry?
39913	What though the clouds drop rain or the winds blew bitterly, what though his diligence a charity meet no present recognition or reward?
39913	What though the wise reprove him when he errs?
39913	What though, as he listens to their reproof, his heart at times grows hot within him?
39913	What to him are the shocks of Change, the blows of Circumstance, the mutations of Time, the fluctuations of Fortune?
39913	What, for example, can be more riant and joyful than the concluding strophe of Psalm xcvi.?
39913	When day''s oppression is not eased by night, But day by night, and night by day, oppress''d?
39913	Where is he likely to turn next?
39913	Who can doubt, then, that the world would have been"forwarded"if its attention had been fixed on this"best"?
39913	Who is rich?
39913	Who is strong?
39913	Who so poor but that he has a little"bread"to cast on the thankless unreturning waters?
39913	Who, indeed, has a stronger claim than the labourer himself to eat and enjoy the fruit of his labours?
39913	Why not take a wife with a small fortune of her own, or with connexions who could help you on?"
39913	Why should they any longer be fretted with care and anxiety when the lamp of Revelation shone so brightly on the future?
39913	Why should they not be cheerful when so happy a prospect lay before them?
39913	Why should they not travel toward a future so welcome and inviting with hearts attuned to mirth and responsive to every touch of pleasure?
39913	Why, to gain so little, should you risk so much?"
39913	Will he not say,"Why should I weary myself any more with studies which yield no certain science, and self- denials which meet with no reward?
39913	Will not his conclusion be that standing conclusion of the baffled and the hapless,"Let us eat and drink for to- morrow we die"?
39913	Will you break your heart unless you are allowed to assume his heavy and degrading burden?"
39913	Wisdom having failed him, to what will he apply?
39913	Would it affright_ them_ to hear that"God taketh cognizance of all things,"and has"appointed a judgment for every secret and every deed"?
39913	Would not this be, rather, their strongest consolation, their brightest hope?
39913	Would they not carry a blither and more patient spirit to all their labours and afflictions if they knew that a day of recompenses was at hand?
39913	Would they not do their duty with better heart if they knew that God saw how hard it was to do?
39913	Would they not show a more constant kindness to their neighbours, if they knew that God would openly reward every alms done in secret?
39913	Yet what period is of graver interest to the student of the Bible?
39913	Yet, after all, what advantage have they?
39913	[ 27] Do they not look with some scorn on the common life of the mass of men, with its base passions and pleasures, struggles and rewards?
39913	[ Sidenote:_ And much that he gains only feeds Vanity;_] 11 Moreover there are many things which increase vanity: What advantage then hath man?
39913	_ Is_ it?
39913	_ Is_ the picture overdrawn?
39913	_ May_ they?
39913	_ ON THE AUTHORSHIP, FORM, DESIGN, AND CONTENTS OF THE BOOK._ Those who raise the question,"Is life worth living?"
39913	_ This_ at least he has supposed to be possible: but is it?
39913	and to Pleasure,"What canst thou do for us?"
39913	and, in proportion as they have the spirit of Christ, is not their very scorn kindly, springing from a pity which lies deeper than itself?
39913	are not these the very perils to which you lie open?
39913	frail as the moth, and of few days like the flower?"
39913	has he really achieved his Quest and attained the Chief Good?
39913	how shall I be better than those old Hebrews and Orientals who held women to be only a toy or a convenience?
39913	is it not an abiding good?
39913	is_ this_ the end?"
39913	no prayers which go beyond any honest and candid expression of their desires?
39913	to whom was it addressed?
39913	what is its general scope and design?
39913	when was it written?
39913	who so faint of heart but that he may sow a little"seed"even when the winds rave and the sky is full of clouds?
39913	why are we thus?
29971	Have I,he says,"any thing that others have not had, or can I hope to find any thing that has not been before?"
29971	Predicting words he multiplies, yet man can never knowThe thing that shall be; yea, what cometh after who shall tell?
29971	Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? 29971 That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?"
29971	What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?
29971	10?
29971	A cynic-- selfish, depressed?
29971	A disappointed sensualist?
29971	A gloomy stoic?
29971	Afar off on earth, with God in heaven?
29971	Again I ask, have we improved on this?
29971	Ah, is there not, too, a peculiar beauty in those words"more than conquerors"?
29971	Ah, who can sound?
29971	Am I to roam afar from home, By Babel''s streams, in gloom despondent?
29971	And are not those conditions and premises clearly laid down for us in the context here?
29971	And how could that affectionate heart force itself calmly to anoint the object of its love for burial?
29971	And in whom?
29971	And many thousand professing Christians are like Amasa of old, their ear is well pleased with the fair sound of"Art thou in health, my brother?"
29971	And shall we not, too, dear brother or sister now reading these lines, let our feeble voice be heard in this sweet harmony of praise?
29971	And think you, my reader, that nature does not cry out for comfort, and feel about for light at such a time?
29971	And thou mayest well say,"What can the man do that cometh after the king?"
29971	And was that travail and toil, even in service for Himself?
29971	And what must be the character of mind that would even seek to invent such a thought?
29971	And when was it written?
29971	And where is that second Man to be found?
29971	And why?
29971	And yet what did Job know of God?
29971	Are men really subject to blind law--"time and doom"?
29971	Are not both revealed there as never before?
29971	Are there no contingencies that more than counterbalance his swiftness?
29971	But as it is difficult to be occupied with"Love"in the abstract, can we find anywhere an embodiment of love?
29971	But does our Preacher find the rest he desires in the path of his own wisdom?
29971	But further, is this"falling asleep"of the saint to separate him, for a time, from the conscious enjoyment of his Saviour''s love?
29971	But high indeed as, in one point of view, this is, yet how low in another, for is one heart- throb stilled?
29971	But how are we to buy?
29971	But how much further can reason discern as to the comparative worth of wisdom or folly?
29971	But if infinite wisdom and love have rent the vail and made a new and living way into the Holiest, does He now say"few words"?
29971	But in what condition?
29971	But is not the counsel good and reasonable enough under certain conditions?
29971	But is that triumph, that joy, so far off that it can only be seen through the dim aisles and long vistas of many future ages and generations?
29971	But is there really no eye to pity?--no heart to love?--no arm to save?
29971	But is this possible?
29971	But the natural affections of the soul of man have they absolutely come to nothing?
29971	But then is all at one dead level?
29971	But then, Ecclesiastes continues, is there complete security in the humbler ranks of life?
29971	But then, is it thus that man came from his Maker''s hands?
29971	But"he that ascended, what is it but that he also descended?"
29971	But, then, are not"words to be few"?
29971	But, then, how may we become rich in that true, real sense?
29971	But, then, is it on account of his parents''sinning?
29971	Can Reason-- can any human Wisdom-- find any satisfactory answer to these weighty questions?
29971	Can he get what is really''good''from it?"
29971	Can we, my readers, fail to set our seal to the truth of all this?
29971	Did they lose anything by so cherishing it?
29971	Do I thus blame him?
29971	Do not all go to one place?--that vague"Sheol,"speaking of the grave, and yet the grave, not as the_ end_, but an indefinite shadowy existence beyond?
29971	Do not all things happen alike to all?
29971	Do the pleasures obtained during life fully compensate for what is spent in obtaining them?
29971	Do they satisfy?
29971	Do we envy him?
29971	Do we not recognize that he, too, was traveling through exactly the same scene as we find ourselves to be in?
29971	Does He not care?
29971	Does Revelation make itself heard here at last?
29971	Does he not give expression to one sad"touch of nature that makes the whole world kin"?
29971	Does he not say, if this life be all, this life of vanity under the sun, then let us eat and drink, for to- morrow we die?
29971	Does human ingenuity still work?
29971	Does human reason admit such a possible incongruity?
29971	Does it give a satisfying comfort?
29971	Does it not attract your nature, is it not a rest to see One e''en there at glory''s summit, yet with human form like thee?
29971	Does it not make Him who Himself has replaced the groan by the song precious?
29971	Does not our own apostle Paul confirm it?
29971	Does this really meet fully the present sorrow?
29971	Faith_ alone_ triumphs here; but faith_ triumphs_; and apart from such tests and trials, what opportunity would there be for faith_ to_ triumph?
29971	First, then, is it not in perfect accord with the peculiar character and calling of the Church?
29971	For as to those who are falling asleep, is_ He_ insensible to that which moves us so deeply?
29971	For is there oppression, and consequent weeping, in heaven?
29971	For the Preacher continues:"Does man''s labor satisfy him?
29971	For what is there in the labor itself?
29971	For, worse still, do men recognize, and live at all reasonably in view of, that common mortality?
29971	Had he not the power to warn the sleeping household of the impending danger?
29971	Has God no purpose in it?
29971	Has He forgotten to be gracious?
29971	Has He, who stamped His own perfection on all His works, permitted an awful hideous exception in the moral nature of man?
29971	Has death saved them from judgment?
29971	Has it made us more separate from the world, more heavenly in character, given us less in common with the worldling?
29971	Has it, then, no value?
29971	Has not this contrast between the new song and the old groan, again we may ask, great value?
29971	Has the writer, after all, been listening to another Voice that has taught him what is on the other side of the grave?
29971	Have not the lines fallen to us in pleasant places?
29971	Have we gained by our giving it up?
29971	Have we mistaken the standpoint whence our book was written?
29971	Have we no sympathy with the Preacher here?
29971	Have we not a goodly heritage?
29971	Have you not wondered why this wondrous word of revelation occurs thus in detail once and only once?
29971	How answer for the myriad sins of life?
29971	How can it endure the searching Light-- the infinite holiness and purity-- of the God to whom it goes?
29971	How can it, if every heart is fully satisfied, and nothing can be improved?
29971	How can this awful matter of my guilt in the sight of that God, the confessed and only source of thy"good,"be settled?
29971	How could He so speak who says"_ Pray without ceasing_"?
29971	How does it compare with Solomon''s?
29971	How is it?
29971	How is this to be answered, Ecclesiastes?--or what help to its answer dost thou give?...
29971	How reap what has been sown?
29971	How shall it give account for the wasted years?
29971	Human knowledge is but a candle, and what worth is candlelight when the noonday sun shines?
29971	I said of laughter,''it is mad;''and of mirth,''what doeth it?''"
29971	If His was the power, was His love lacking?
29971	Is He calmly indifferent to the anguish in that far- off cottage?
29971	Is He so bound by some law of His own making as to forbid his interfering with its working?
29971	Is death no longer the dark unknown?
29971	Is his song"Not all things else are half so dear As is His blissful presence here"to be silenced by death?
29971	Is it all His retributive justice against sin?
29971	Is it conscious still, or does it lose consciousness as in a deep sleep?
29971	Is it not a magnificent ascription of abounding wisdom?
29971	Is it not because of the perfect light that there shines?
29971	Is it not one of the weapons of those who contend against this our hope that we base too much on this isolated Scripture text?
29971	Is it not, then, in accord with this that her meeting with her Lord should be literally heavenly, too?
29971	Is it to deal with another troubled anxious soul, where human wisdom avails nothing?
29971	Is not God the source of order and harmony?
29971	Is not the word that believers shall,"meet the Lord in the air"in absolute accord with these different aspects of the Lord as Star and Sun?
29971	Is not this revelation self- evidently of God-- worthy of Him-- possible only to Him?
29971	Is not, then, this earth a unique place?--this life a wonderful time?
29971	Is that exactly true?
29971	Is that just as Scripture puts it?
29971	Is the opposite extreme of perfect idleness any better?
29971	Is the trysting of the saved one with his Saviour to be interrupted for awhile by death?
29971	Is there any law of constant unsatisfying circuit in Him?
29971	Is there any reverence in approach to such?
29971	Is there invention there?
29971	Is there not a glorious moral elevation in this conclusion?
29971	Is there one that can be found gold, silver, precious stones?
29971	Is this not mere imaginative ecstasy, whilst practically such a state is not possible?
29971	Is this the deliverance for which we hoped?
29971	Is this the promised grace of which even now we spoke?
29971	Is_ this_ what life is?
29971	Its bright morning ever to be clouded,--its day to be darkened with the thoughts of its_ end_?
29971	Look once more upon that Head: finds memory no attraction there In the time when, homeless- wandering, night- dews filled that very hair?
29971	My reader, do you enjoy this fair good?
29971	Nor need we ask, with our modern poet, who sings sweetly, but too much in the spirit of Ecclesiastes, Where wert thou, brother, those four days?
29971	Nor that the enemy of our souls is not quick in his malignant activity to suggest all kinds of awful doubt?
29971	Now is this not equally and exactly true of that other part of the divine nature-- Love?
29971	Now listen, as the heathen cry,"Where is now their God?"
29971	Now who has been leading us all through these exercises?
29971	O grave, where is thy victory?"
29971	Oh, grave, where is thy victory?
29971	On sorrow''s tree must my harp be To grief''s sad gusts alone respondent?
29971	One deep question answered?
29971	One fear quieted?
29971	One sin- shackle loosened?
29971	One tormenting doubt removed?
29971	Shall his lot not be shaped by infinite love and wisdom?
29971	Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
29971	Shall we ask Ecclesiastes one single question that surely needs clear answer in order to attain it?
29971	Shall we learn lessons there that shall rob it of all its terrors, and replace the groan with song?
29971	Shall we, who enjoy the very meridian of revelation light;--shall we, who have seen_ Him slain for us_, say_ less_?
29971	Strange counsel this, for sober and wise Ecclesiastes to give, is it not?
29971	Suppose this were where you and I were, my reader, what should we learn of the way of attaining to this"good that is fair"?
29971	Take the feeblest of the saints of God of today, and had Solomon in all his glory a lot like one of these?
29971	Tears there are, in plenty, in hell; for did not He who is Love say,"there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth"?
29971	That tears were raining on this crust of earth in that far- off time, exactly as they are to- day?
29971	The strong-- is he necessarily conqueror in the fight?
29971	The swift-- does he always win the race?
29971	Then said I in my heart, as it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me: and why was I then more wise?
29971	Then turn and listen to this sweet voice:"If any man thirst"( and what man does not?)
29971	Then why is it written we must all appear( or rather"be_ manifested_,"be clearly shown out in true light) before the judgment seat of Christ?
29971	To God who gave it?
29971	We will now ask our learned friends, since Solomon has been so conclusively proved not to have written it, Who did?
29971	What can be more than a conqueror?
29971	What can man''s mind conceive, he may ask, as well as man''s hand do, that cometh after the King?
29971	What can we give for that gold, when He says we are already poor?
29971	What comfort or hope could he extract from it?
29971	What discrimination is there here?
29971	What does that mean?
29971	What field has it not capacity to explore?
29971	What is the reasonable, necessary conclusion?
29971	What is the secret of it?
29971	What remains, then, for Solomon, and the myriads like him?
29971	What shall efface the memory of those wasted years, or what shall give a quiet peace, in view of the fast- coming harvest of that wild sowing?
29971	What then is the basis for all this verbiage about the temple worship?
29971	What use, then, in many words( not things) since they afford no relief as against that end?
29971	What would Solomon have given to have known this?
29971	Whence, then, the discord?
29971	Where and when does this judgment of our works, then, take place?
29971	Where are we, in time, my readers?
29971	Where can rest be found in such a scene?
29971	Where does it now abide?
29971	Where else in the old creation, and how long did that last?
29971	Where has our writer learned, with such emphatic certainty, of a judgment to come?
29971	Where, then, are the sins?
29971	Where, then, the sin?
29971	Wherein does this differ from Solomon''s"conclusion of the whole matter"?
29971	Whilst the spirit-- yes, what of the spirit?
29971	Who amongst men, let thought sweep as wide as it will amongst the children of Adam, can go or has gone, beyond him?
29971	Who can express the glories of that contrast?
29971	Who can picture the joy of that upward flight?
29971	Who can picture the terrors of this darkness in which such a conclusion leaves us?
29971	Who did_ the sin_ that brought this evident punishment?
29971	Who has seen and told what is on the other side of that dread portal?
29971	Who that has known the agony of broken heart- strings does not see the infinitely gracious tender comfort in those three words,"together with them"?
29971	Who will deny that this is indeed admirable?
29971	Why is it?
29971	Why was he born blind?
29971	Why was not His shield thrown about them?
29971	Why, then, do the guilty go comparatively free, and the guiltless suffer?
29971	Why, then, shall not these affections there have full unhindered play?
29971	Why, then, the thoroughly unequal allotment?
29971	Will it carry him on to the highest rest and freedom at last?
29971	Worse still, was He indifferent to the awful catastrophe that was about to crush the joy out of that family circle?
29971	Would not_ that_ silence the song of Heaven, embitter even its joy, and still leave tears to be wiped away?
29971	Wouldst thou be rich, then, my soul?
29971	Yea; would it not change its character completely, extracting bitterness from it?
29971	Yes, but does this really answer the root cause of the groan in our chapter?
29971	Yes, further, does not Time, unchecked by any higher power, sweep all relentlessly to one common end?
29971	Yes, further, this constant change-- is there no reason for it?
29971	_ Can_ we improve upon it?
29971	and do they remain to him as"profit"over and above that expenditure?
29971	for thou hadst the whole world and the glory of it at thy command in thy day, and did it enable thee to fill those"free and boundless desires"?
29971	or, most agonizing question of all, Has some inmate of that home sinned, and chilled thus His love?
8193	But man dieth and lieth outstretched; He giveth up the ghost, where is he then? 8193 But wisdom-- whence shall it come?
8193	Far off is that which is, and deep, deep, who can fathom it? 8193 How should man be in the right against God?
8193	Shall they not teach thee?
8193	Wherefore,he asks,"do the wicked live, become old, yea wax mighty in strength?"
8193	Who has ascended into heaven and come down again? 8193 [ 123] What then is life?
8193	[ 194] The same doctrine is laid down by the last accredited of the Buddha''s disciples, Sariputto:What, brethren, is the source of suffering?"
8193	***** Such an one would I question about God: What is his name?"
8193	21. Who knoweth whether the breath of man riseth upwards or whether the breath of the beast sinketh downwards to the earth?
8193	3. during his life, what shall befall after his death?
8193	:"Is not the soul of every living thing in his hand, And the breath of all mankind?"
8193	:"Why do the times of judgment depend upon the Almighty, And yet they who know him do not see his days?
8193	Am I a sea or a sea- monster,[205] That thou settest a watch over me?
8193	And are not his days like to those of an hireling?
8193	And does he judge the man of blood?
8193	And harrow up your friend?
8193	And hast thou drawn wisdom unto thyself?
8193	And he said, What shall I cry?
8193	And his dread seize hold of you?
8193	And how can man be deemed just before God, And how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
8193	And how often doth"ruin"overwhelm them?
8193	And how should not my spirit be impatient?
8193	And how will ye comfort me in vain, Since of your answers nought but falsehood remains?
8193	And is not rescue driven wholly away from me?
8193	And its path for the lightning of thunder?
8193	And knitted me with bones and sinews?
8193	And of darkness, where is the abode?
8193	And of the latter he says:"But wisdom-- whence shall it come?
8193	And shall the prattler[212] be deemed in the right?
8193	And shall the rock be removed from its place?
8193	And that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him?
8193	And that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him?
8193	And the east wind scattered upon the earth?
8193	And the uprightness of thy ways thy hope?
8193	And upon whom doth his light not arise?
8193	And utter lies on his behalf?
8193	And what is the name of his sons, if thou knowest it?
8193	And what mine end that I should be patient?
8193	And what the name of his sons, if thou knowest it?''"
8193	And when he visiteth, what could I answer him?
8193	And when thou jeerest, shall none make thee ashamed?
8193	And where is the place of understanding?
8193	And where is the place of understanding?
8193	And where is the place of understanding?
8193	And who gendered the hoar- frost of heaven?
8193	And who knoweth whether he be a wise man or a fool?
8193	And whose spirit went out from thee?
8193	And why the breasts, that I might suck?
8193	And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
8193	Are not thine iniquities numberless?
8193	Are thy days as the days of mortals?
8193	As He does not, why speak of the moral order of His world or of the moral attributes of Himself?
8193	As then our acts shape our rewards, of what avail are gods or Fate?
8193	Be not righteous overmuch, neither make thyself overwise; why wouldst thou ruin thyself?
8193	Because he knoweth not what shall be; for who can tell him how it will come to pass?
8193	Become old, yea, wax mighty in strength?
8193	Behold, he taketh away, and who can hinder him?
8193	Bethink, I pray thee, who ever perished guiltless?
8193	But does such a genuine teacher exist?
8193	But may we not hope for some better and higher state in the future life beyond the tomb where vice will be punished and virtue rewarded?
8193	But shall not a drowning man stretch out his hand?
8193	But this proves nothing; the all- important question being, could we, under the circumstances, have willed otherwise than we did?
8193	But what doth your arguing reprove?
8193	But what, I have been frequently asked, will be the effect of all this upon theology?
8193	CCCII Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, And spread her pinions towards the south?
8193	CCCIII Will the caviller still contend with the Almighty?
8193	CCCVII JOB: Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee?
8193	CCI Is the wicked taught understanding by God?
8193	CCIV ELIPHAZ: Can a man be profitable unto God?
8193	CCLII Yea, what booted me the strength of their hands?
8193	CCLIX Did I not weep for him that was in trouble?
8193	CCLXVI Had I despised the right of my man- servant Or of my maidservant, when they contended with me, What could I do, when God rose up?
8193	CCLXXIX When I laid the earth''s foundation where wast thou?
8193	CCLXXVIII JAHVEH: Who is this that darkeneth my counsel, With words devoid of knowledge?
8193	CCLXXX Where are its sockets sunk down, Or who laid the corner- stone thereof?
8193	CCLXXXI Who shut in the sea with doors, When it brake forth as issuing from the womb?
8193	CCLXXXIII Was it at thy prompting that I commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place?
8193	CCLXXXIX By what way is the mist parted?
8193	CCLXXXV Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?
8193	CCLXXXVI Hast thou surveyed the breadth of the earth?
8193	CCLXXXVII Which way leadeth to the dwelling of light?
8193	CCV Will he reprove thee for thy fear of him?
8193	CCXC Out of whose womb issued the ice?
8193	CCXCI Canst thou bind the knots of the Pleiads, Or loose the fetters of Orion?
8193	CCXCIV Who provideth his food for the raven, When his young ones cry unto God?
8193	CCXCV Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
8193	CCXCVII Will the wild ox be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy grip?
8193	CCXCVIII Dost thou bestow might upon the horse?
8193	CCXIX But he is bent upon one thing and who can turn him away?
8193	CCXVI Will he plead against me with his almighty power?
8193	CCXXI Why do the times of judgment depend upon the Almighty, And yet they who know him do not see his days?
8193	CCXXVI But the thunder of his power, Who understands its working?
8193	CCXXVIII JOB: How hast thou helped him that is without power?
8193	CCXXXIV But wisdom-- whence shall it come?
8193	CCXXXIX Will God hear his cry, When trouble overtaketh him?
8193	CI Is not the soul of every living thing in his hand, And the breath of all mankind?
8193	CIII Behold he breaketh down and it can not be builded anew: He shutteth up a man, and who can open to him?
8193	CLIV Hold still my pledge in thy keeping, Who then will be my voucher?
8193	CLIX And my hope-- where is it now?
8193	CLX BILDAD: When wilt thou make an end of words?
8193	CLXI Shall the earth be deserted for thy sake?
8193	CLXVIII JOB: How long will ye harrow my soul, And crush me with words?
8193	CXCII As for me, is my complaint to men?
8193	CXCVIII How oft is"the lamp of evil- doers put out"?
8193	CXI Will ye discourse wickedly for God?
8193	CXII Were it well for you should he search you out?
8193	CXIII Shall not his majesty, then, make you afraid?
8193	CXIX Wilt thou scare a leaf driven to and fro?
8193	CXVIII How many are mine iniquities?
8193	CXXVI But man dieth, and lieth outstretched; He giveth up the ghost, where is he then?
8193	CXXX ELIPHAZ: Should a wise man utter empty knowledge, And fill his belly with the east wind?
8193	CXXXII Art thou the first man born?
8193	CXXXIII What knowest thou that we know not?
8193	Can not my palate discern misfortunes?
8193	Can the Nile- reed shoot up without water?
8193	Can ye dupe him as ye dupe men?
8193	Canst thou number the months when they bring forth?
8193	Canst thou send lightnings that they may speed, And say unto thee: Here we are?
8193	Deemed silenced in thy sight?
8193	Deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
8193	Did I not weep for him that was in trouble?"
8193	Did not he that made me in the womb, make him?
8193	Did not he that made me in the womb, make him?
8193	Do not allow thyself too much liberty, and be not a fool: why wouldst thou die before thy time?
8193	Dost thou clothe his neck with a waving mane?
8193	Dost thou make him to bound like a locust, In the pride of his terrible snort?
8193	Doth God pervert judgment?
8193	Doth not the ear try words As the mouth tasteth its meat?
8193	Doth the solace of God not suffice unto thee, And a word to thee whispered softly?
8193	Far off is that which is,[288] and deep, deep; who can fathom it?
8193	For what can be the hope of the iniquitous, When God cutteth his soul away?
8193	For what hath man of all his striving and of the worry of his heart wherewith he labours under the sun?
8193	For what hath the wise more than the fool?
8193	For what manner of man will he be who shall come after me?
8193	For who can eat and who can enjoy except through him?
8193	For who can show him what shall become of him after his death?
8193	For who can tell a man what shall come to pass after him under the sun?
8193	For who knoweth what is helpful to man in life during the brief vain days of his existence which he spendeth as a shadow?
8193	For whom do I wear myself out and bereave my soul of pleasure?
8193	God alone is endowed with wisdom; but is He likewise good?
8193	Granting that a certain wholesale kind of equity was administered, why must the individual suffer for no fault of his own?
8193	Hast thou not clothed me with skin and flesh?
8193	Hath not man warfare upon earth?
8193	Have the gates of death been opened unto thee, Or hast thou seen the doors of darkness?
8193	How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to argue with him?
8193	How oft are they as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carries away?
8193	How then can ye reason as if the moral order were based upon retribution, and from my sufferings infer my sins?
8193	How upholdest thou the arm that hath no strength?
8193	I heard a gentle voice:--"Shall a mortal be more just than God?
8193	II Who has ascended into heaven and come down again?
8193	If God will not punish them, is He just?
8193	If He can not, is He almighty?
8193	If strength be aught, lo, he is strong, And if judgment, who shall arraign him?
8193	If this be so, who are they that have surprised the secret and found the clue to the enigma?
8193	Involuntarily, then, the question forces itself upon us, Is He all- good?
8193	Is he not heedless of the counsel of the wicked?
8193	Is it a boon to the Almighty that thou art righteous?
8193	Is my strength the strength of stones?
8193	Is not pity the duty of the friend, Who, else, turneth away from the fear of God?
8193	Is not rather thy wickedness great?
8193	Is not their tent- pole torn up?
8193	Is there any number to his armies?
8193	Is there taste in the white of raw eggs?
8193	Jahveh virtually asks, as Buddha had asked before:"Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know with mortal mind?
8193	LIII What is man that thou shouldst magnify him?
8193	LIX Can the papyrus grow without marsh?
8193	LV Why dost thou not rather pardon my misdeed, And take away mine iniquity?
8193	LVI BILDAD: How long wilt thou utter these things, And shall the words of thy mouth be like a storm wind?
8193	LXV JOB: I know it is so of a truth; For how should man be in the right against God?
8193	LXXXI Is it meet that thou shouldst oppress, Shouldst thrust aside the work of thine hands?
8193	LXXXIV Didst thou not pour me out as milk, And curdle me like cheese?
8193	LXXXVIII Wherefore, then, didst thou bring me out of the womb?
8193	Lest I be sated and deny thee, And say, Who is the Lord?
8193	Likewise, if two lie down together, they become warm; but how can one grow warm alone?
8193	Ma- yámriç''khá, ki táhnä?
8193	Mighty is the word of the monarch; Who dares ask him:"What dost thou?
8193	My bliss-- who shall behold it?
8193	Nor leave me in peace while there is breath in my throat?
8193	Of what avail is it to man?
8193	Or at least how are we to reconcile His having done so with His attribute of goodness?
8193	Or deliver me from the enemy''s hand?
8193	Or doth the Almighty corrupt justice?
8193	Or give a bribe for me of your substance?
8193	Or hast thou walked in search of the abysses?
8193	Or is it gain to him that thou makest thy way perfect?
8193	Or is my flesh of brass?
8193	Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
8193	Or redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
8193	Or wast thou made before the hills?
8193	Or where were the righteous cut off?
8193	Or with speeches that profit him nothing?
8193	Say not: Why were old times better than these?
8193	Seest thou as man seeth?
8193	Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
8193	Shall he not cry out in his destruction?
8193	Shall idle words have an end?
8193	Should he reason with bootless prattle?
8193	Should men hold their peace at thy babbling?
8193	Such an one would I question about God: What is his name?
8193	Such an one would I question about God:''What is his name?
8193	Take our fellow- men, their ways and works, for instance, and what do we behold?
8193	That it might seize hold of the ends of the earth, That the wicked might be shaken out?
8193	That thou shouldst take it to its bounds, And that thou shouldst know the paths to its house?
8193	That thou shouldst visit him every morning, And try him every moment?
8193	That thou shouldst visit him every morning, And try him every moment?
8193	The tuneful Psalmist had sung in ecstatic wonder at the mercy of God:"What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
8193	Then I said in mine heart: As it happeneth to the fool, so shall it happen also unto me; and why then have I been so very wise?
8193	To whom hast thou uttered words?
8193	Unto mirth: What cometh of it?
8193	V Why died I not straight from the womb?
8193	Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
8193	Wast thou heard in the council of God?
8193	What is there in material man that he should be immortal?
8193	What pricks thee that thou answerest?
8193	What profit hath man of all his toil wherewith he wearies himself under the sun?
8193	What profit hath the toiler from that whereat he labours?
8193	What understandest thou which is not in us?
8193	What, the poor who knoweth how to walk before the living?
8193	What, then, is the secret of"happiness"?
8193	When goods increase, they also are multiplied that devour them, and what profit hath the owner thereof save the gazing thereon with his eyes?
8193	Wherefore are we counted as beasts?
8193	Wherefore do the wicked live?
8193	Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
8193	Who can bind the waters in a garment?
8193	Who can bind the waters in a garment?
8193	Who can gather the wind in his fists?
8193	Who can gather the wind in his fists?
8193	Who can grasp all the ends of the earth?
8193	Who can grasp all the ends of the earth?
8193	Who can straighten what he hath made crooked?
8193	Who hath divided its course for the rain- storm?
8193	Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest, Or who hath stretched the line upon it?
8193	Who is he that will plead with me?
8193	Who revealed to them that retribution is the basis of the moral order?
8193	Who will say unto him:"What dost thou?"
8193	Why cause God to be wroth at thy voice and destroy the work of thy hands?
8193	Why did God make man under such conditions?
8193	Why did the knees meet me?
8193	Why do ye persecute me like God, And are not satiated with my flesh?
8193	Why hast thou set me up as a butt, So that I am become a target for thee?
8193	Why, having come out of the belly, did I not expire?
8193	Will he always call upon God?
8193	Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
8193	Will he enter with thee into judgment for that?
8193	Will he not surely rebuke you, If ye secretly[218] accept his person?
8193	Will not your adages become as ashes, Your arguments even as bulwarks of clay?
8193	Will ye contend for God with deception?
8193	Will ye even assail me, the blameless one?
8193	Wilt thou condemn me that thou mayst be in the right?
8193	Wilt thou even disannul my judgment?
8193	Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great, Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
8193	Would one eat things insipid without salt?
8193	XC ZOPHAR: Shall the multitude of words be left unanswered?
8193	XCII It[213] is high as heaven; what canst thou do?
8193	XIII Was not the fear of God thy confidence?
8193	XLI Did I say: Bestow aught upon me?
8193	XLIII Do ye imagine to rebuke words?
8193	XLV Is there iniquity in my tongue?
8193	XLVII Lying down I exclaim: When shall I arise?
8193	XX Call now, if so be any will answer thee; And to which of the angels wilt thou turn?
8193	XXXIV Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?
8193	XXXVII What is my strength that I should hope?
8193	XXXVIII Am I not utterly bereft of help?
8193	Yea, though one lived a thousand years twice told, yet had not tasted happiness, must not all wander into one place?
8193	Yet hold they not happiness in their own hands?
8193	[ 19] But if this be so, one may ask, why do we feel sorrow, shame, repentance for acts which we were not free to perform or abstain from performing?
8193	[ 206] LIV Why wilt thou not look away from me?
8193	[ 217] Will ye accept his person by dint of trickery?
8193	[ 239] If there be a God who rules the world, punishes evil, and rewards good, how comes it that we descry no signs of such just retribution?
8193	[ 241] And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, And render my speech meaningless?
8193	[ 242] Why then do ye utter such empty things?
8193	[ 247] And did he not fashion us in one belly?
8193	and the son of man that thou visitest him?
8193	i. to:"Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side?"
8193	in spite of the fact that ye know it is untrue?
8193	is rendered in our version as follows:"If a man die shall he live again?"
8193	shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
8193	to which the emphatic answer is"None;"and How had we best occupy the vain days of our wretched existence?
8193	with a strophe from Job: Shamáti khéllä rábbot: Menáchme''amal koól''khem, Hakeç ledíberé rooch?