For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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

For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth him with the joy of his heart.

because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;

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

And I commended mirth, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.

then I saw that all is the work of God, and that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek it out, yet doth he not find it; and even, if a wise man think to know it, he shall not be able to find it out.

The labour of fools wearieth them, because they know not how to go to the city.

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 moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.