³ This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

⁹ The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

¹¹ Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

¹⁷ And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

²⁹ Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

³⁰ Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

³¹ Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

¹⁷ But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

²³ And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

²⁴ And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced.

³ For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

¹⁶ But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.

¹¹ But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.

²¹ Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

²² The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

²³ All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

²⁰ These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

²¹ And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

¹⁶ How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

⁵ Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

³² The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

²⁵ I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

² Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

¹¹ And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.