All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

All things are full of weariness; man cannot express it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one fate happens to them all.

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

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how does the wise man die? as the fool.

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

The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.

For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, who knows to walk before the living?

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

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto 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.

Dead flies cause the ointment of the perfumer to send forth a foul odor: so does a little folly to him that is respected for wisdom and honor.

A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Yea also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to every one that he is a fool.

He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets: