The sun also arises, and the sun goes down and hastens to its place where it arises.

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And, behold, this also was vanity.

I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

I also gathered for me silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of men, [and] a wife and wives.

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me, and why then was I more wise? Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillfulness, yet he shall leave it to a man who has not labored in it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief, yea, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor. [It] is the gift of God.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind?

All his days also he eats in gloom, and he is greatly troubled, and has depression and anger.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

It is good that thou should take hold of this, yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand. For he who fears God shall come forth from them all.

Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee.

For many times also thine own heart knows that thou thyself likewise have cursed others.

So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.

I have also seen wisdom under the sun this way, and it seemed great to me:

Yea also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone [that] he is a fool.

A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them,