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.

And whatsoever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my reward of all my labor.

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

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men's hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.

I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served from the field.

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing from his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withhold not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of them all.

All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are fetters: whosoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceeds from the ruler:

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.