For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Do not curse a king, no, not in your thought; and do not curse the rich in your bedroom; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.