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 their life.

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

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone ?

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.