One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth standeth for ever.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.

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.

There is nothing good for man, but that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;

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.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and who hath not another to lift him up!

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one alone be warm?

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.

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

The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.

one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.

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.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools in the house of mirth.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

For wisdom is a defence as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom maketh them that possess it to live.

All this have I tried by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

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.

which my soul yet seeketh, and I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.

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

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.

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

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.

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

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

The heart of a wise man is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

folly is set in great dignities, but the rich sit in a low place.

He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he apply more strength; but wisdom is profitable to give success.

If the serpent bite before enchantment, then the charmer hath no advantage.

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

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh life merry; but money answereth everything.

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.

Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

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