For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.

If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?

Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is vanity.

And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

And besides, my son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.