I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to greatness, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I got myself male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle more than all that were in Jerusalem before me:

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how does the wise man die? as the fool.

For who can eat, or who else can have enjoyment, more than I?

Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

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.

Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this one has more rest than the other.

For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, who knows to walk before the living?

Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men who are in the city.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are fetters: whosoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under the sun.

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.

If the iron is blunt, and he does not sharpen the edge, then must he use more strength: but wisdom helps one to succeed.