The sun arose and the sun went down, and panted after its place which it arose there.

All the torrents going into the sea, and the sea not full: to the place the torrents going, there they turn back to go.

Is there a word will be said, See, this is new? This was already to a long time which was before us.

And I saw there is profit to wisdom more than to folly, as the excellence of the light above darkness.

For there is man his labor in wisdom, and in knowledge and in success; and to man not laboring in it he shall give his portion. Also this is vanity and much evil.

And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.

I said in my heart, The just one and the unjust one, God will judge: for a time for every inclination and for every work there.

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

Two are good above one, because there is to them a good reward in their labor.

When thou shalt vow a vow to God, thou shalt not delay to repay it; for there is no desire in the foolish: repay what thou shalt vow.

There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.

There is evil which I saw under the sun, and it is much upon man:

If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.

For there is many words increasing vanity, what shall remain to man?

I saw all in the days of my vanity: there is a just one perishing in his justice, and there is an unjust one, being prolonged in his evil.

To every inclination there is time and judgment; for man's evil is great upon him.

There is vanity which was done upon the earth; that there is the just which it comes upon them according to the work of the unjust: and there is the unjust, it comes upon them according to the work of the just. I said, Also this is vanity.

And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.

For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion.

All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.

There is an evil I saw under the sun as an error going forth from before him having power:

If the clouds shall be filled with rain, they shall pour out upon the earth: and if the tree shall fall in the south or in the north, the place the tree shall fall, there it shall be.