I bought male and female slaves and I had homeborn slaves. Also I possessed flocks and herds larger than all who preceded me in Jerusalem.

Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

A time to love and a time to hate;
A time for war and a time for peace.

Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.

As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.

Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.