for who can eat or enjoy life apart from him?

I have concluded that everything that God undertakes will last for eternity nothing can be added to it nor taken away from it and that God acts this way so that people will fear him.

If they stumble, the first will lift up his friend but woe to anyone who is alone when he falls and there is no one to help him get up.

There was no end to all of his subjects or to all of the people who had come before them. But those who come along afterward will not be happy with him. This is also pointless and a chasing after wind.

Sweet is the sleep of a working man, whether he eats a little or a lot, but the excess wealth of the rich will not allow him to rest.

I have observed a painful tragedy on earth: Wealth hoarded by its owner harms him,

and that wealth is lost in troubled circumstances. Then a son is born, but there is nothing left for him.

Look! I observed that it is good and prudent to eat, drink, and enjoy all that is good of a person's work that he does on earth during the limited days of his life, which God gives him, for this is his allotment.

For he will not brood much over the days of his life, since God will keep him occupied with the joys of his heart.

a man to whom God gives wealth, riches, and honor, so that he lacks none of his heart's desires but God does not give him the capability to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger consumes them. This is pointless and a grievous affliction.

Don't be in a hurry to leave him, and don't persist in evil, for he does whatever he pleases.

Since a king's command is powerful, who is able to challenge him, asking, "What are you doing?"

Indeed, there is an appropriate time and a response for every circumstance, since human misery weighs heavily upon him.

For he has absolutely no knowledge what will happen, since who can declare to him when it will come about?

So then I recommended enjoyment of life, because it is better on earth for a man to eat, drink, and be happy, since this will stay with him throughout his struggle all the days of his life, which God grants him on earth.

The words spoken by the wise are gracious, but the lips of a fool will devour him.

The fool overflows with words, and no one can predict what will happen. As to what will happen after him, who can explain it?

The work of a fool so wears him out that he can't even find his way to town.

Even if a person lives many years, let him enjoy them all, recalling that there will be many days of darkness to come all of which are pointless.