For to a man good before his face, he gave wisdom and knowledge and gladness: and to him sinning, he gave labor, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good one before the face of God. Also this is vanity and the striving of the spirit.

What the excellence of him working in what he labored?

What was, it is already; and what to be, was already; and God will seek him being driven away.

And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

For if they shall fall, the one will raise up his companion: and wo to him, the one that shall fall, and not a second to raise him up.

And if one shall become strong against him, two shall stand before him; and a three-fold thread shall not be quickly broken.

No end to all the people, to all which were before them: also the last ones shall not rejoice in him. For also this is vanity and striving of the spirit

The sleep of the servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep.

And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind?

Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.

Also every man which God gave to him wealth and riches, and permitted him to eat from it, and to lift up his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this the gift of God himself.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God humbles him in the gladness of his heart.

A man which God will give to him wealth and riches and honor, and wanting not to his soul from all which he shall desire, and God will not permit him to eat from it, for a man, a stranger shall eat it. This is vanity and it is an evil disease.

If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.

What was, its name was called already, and it was known that it is man: and he shall not be able to contend with the powerful above him.

For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?

In the day of good, be in good; and in the day of evil, see thou: also God made this over against this, to the end that man shall not find anything after him.

Wheresoever the word of a king, it is powerful: and who shall say to him, What wilt thou do?

To every inclination there is time and judgment; for man's evil is great upon him.

For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him?

All this I saw, and giving my heart to every work which was done under the sun: a time which man had power overman for evil to him.

Whoever sinned, doing evil a hundred, and it being prolonged to him, for also I know that it will be to those fearing God, who shall be afraid from his face.

And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.

All according to all: one event to the just one and to the unjust one; to the good one and to the clean one, and to the unclean one; to him sacrificing and to him not sacrificing: as the good one, so the sinning one; he swearing, as he who shall fear an oath.

The words of the wise being heard in quiet more than the cry of him ruling among the foolish.

If the spirit of him ruling shall go up against thee, thou shalt not leave thy place; for quietness will put down great sins.

There is an evil I saw under the sun as an error going forth from before him having power:

He digging a ditch shall fall into it; he breaking down a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

The words of the wise one's mouth, grace; and the lips of the foolish one shall swallow him down.

And the foolish one will multiply words: man shall not know what shall be; and what shall be after him, who shall announce to him?

And remember him creating thee in the days of thy youth, till even when the days of evil shall not come, and the years draw near in which thou shalt say, Not to me delight in them;