A generation went away, and a generation came: and the earth stood forever.

No remembrance to former things; and also to the latter things that shall be; to them shall be no remembrance with them which shall be for the latter state.

And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

Moreover, I saw under the sun ungodliness in the stead of judgment, and iniquity instead of righteousness.

I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

There is no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind.

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight [of corruption]; for a higher official watches over another official, and there are higher ones over them [looking out for one another].

Every one, was like every one else, one destiny, had the righteous and the lawless, the good and the pure and the impure, and he that sacrificed, and he that did not sacrifice, - as the good man, so, the sinner, he that took an oath, as he who, of an oath, stood in fear.

The beginning of the words of his mouth, folly: and the latter state of his mouth the folly of evil.

Through laziness the rafters [of state affairs] decay and the roof sags, and through idleness [the roof of] the house leaks.