All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be remembrance of things that are to come with those who shall live afterwards.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.

All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.

And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter.

Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

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

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes?

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

Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men that are in a city.

Also give not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee.

and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

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

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool swallow up himself.

Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

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

and the doors are shut toward the street; when the sound of the grinding is subdued, and they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)

The words of the wise are as goads, and the collections of them as nails fastened in: they are given from one shepherd.