I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have become great and have acquired wisdom more than all they that have been before me over Jerusalem; and my heart hath seen much of wisdom and knowledge.

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind:

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.

For the dream comes through much effort, and the voice of the fool through many words.

Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

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

Never ask "Why does the past seem so much better than now?" because this question does not come from wisdom.

Wisdom is better than riches; yea, much more worth than the eyesight.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.

If, blunt, be the iron, and, himself, hath not sharpened, the edge, then, much force, must he apply, - but, an advantage for giving success, is wisdom.

The fool {talks too much}, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}?

By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

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.