I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it is vanity.

For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;

Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, 'I have no pleasure in them.'