Hello there, everyone. This is Mary DeMuth and this is pray every day where I pray through the Bible verse by verse.

Not sure why I had a strange little start there, but really grateful to have you here on this 12th day of October.

And thank you for just loving the scriptures and loving being prayed for i truly truly appreciate it today i am finishing

up chapter seven of ecclesiastes verse 17 through no 15 through 29 in the world english bible

and this is what it says all this i've seen in my days of vanity There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness,

and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evil doing. Don't be overly righteous,

neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself? Don't be too wicked,

neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time? It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don't withdraw your hands from that.

For he who fears God will come out of all of them all.

Wisdom is a strength of the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city surely there is not a

righteous man on earth who does good and doesn't sin also don't take heed to all words that are

spoken lest you hear your servant curse you for often your own heart knows that you yourself have

likewise cursed others.

All this I have proved in wisdom.

I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

That which is is far off and exceedingly deep.

Who can find it out?

I turned around and my heart sought to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things and to know that wickedness

is stupidity and that foolishness is madness.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps whose hands

are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Behold, I have found this, says the preacher, to one another, to find an explanation,

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