For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

When you vow a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: so what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

But those riches are lost by a bad venture: when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.

For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is one who neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes:)

For man also knows not his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

Yea also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to every one that he is a fool.

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows grow dim,

And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets: