applied my mind to seek out and search for the knowledge of all things that are done under heaven. Such travail and labor hath God given to the children of men, to exercise themselves therein.

He giveth unto man, what it pleaseth him; whether it be wisdom, understanding, or gladness. But unto the sinner he giveth weariness and sorrow, that he may gather and heap together the thing, that afterward shall be given unto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vain thing, yea a very disquietness and vexation of mind.

For as touching the travail and carefulness which God hath given unto men, I see that he hath given it them, to be exercised in it.

It is better to give ear to the chastening of a wise man, than to hear the song of fools.

Use thy self to live joyfully with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life which is but vanity, that God hath given thee under the Sun; all the days of thy vanity. For that is thy portion in this life, of all thy labor and travail that thou takest under the Sun.

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.

Give part sven days, and also upon the eighth, for thou knowest not what misery shall come upon earth.

For the words of the wise are like pricks and nails that go through, wherewith men are kept together: for they are given of one shepherd only.