I communed with mine own heart, saying, "Lo, I am come to a great estate, and have gotten more wisdom, than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem." Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge,

For where much wisdom is, there is also great travail and disquietness; and the more knowledge a man hath, the more is his care.

I bought servants and maidens, and had a great household. As for cattle and sheep, I had more substance of them than all they that were before me in Jerusalem.

Forsomuch as a man should weary himself with wisdom, with understanding and opportunity, and yet be fain to leave his labours unto another, that never sweat for them. This is also a vain thing and a great misery.

If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

For oft times they perish with his great misery and trouble: and if he have a child it getteth nothing.

All the days of his life also must he eat in the dark, with great carefulness, sickness and sorrow.

For I have oft seen the ungodly brought to their graves, and fallen down from the high and glorious place; insomuch that they were forgotten in the city where they were had in so high and great reputation. This is also a vain thing.

This wisdom have I seen also under the Sun, and me thought it a great thing.

There was a little city, and a few men within it: so there came a great king and besieged it, and made great bulwarks against it.

If a principal spirit be given thee to bear rule, be not negligent then in thine office: for so shall great wickedness be put down, as it were with a medicine.

in that a fool sitteth in great dignity, and the rich are set down beneath.

The beginning of his talking is foolishness, and the last word of his mouth is great madness.

When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.