I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil.

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great on man:

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.

This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

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;

If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.

While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well.