For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

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

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

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; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.