I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

For what advantage has the wise man more than the fool? What has the poor man, who knows how to walk before the living?

For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?

The labor of fools wearies every one of them, for he knows not how to go to the city.

As thou know not what is the way of the wind, [nor] how the bones [grow] in the womb of her who is with child, even so thou know not the work of God who does all.