And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom concerning all which was done under the heavens: this evil business God gave to the sons of man to be occupied in it

It spake with my heart, saying, Behold, I was magnified, and added wisdom over all that were before me at Jerusalem: and my heart saw much of wisdom and knowledge.

And I will give my heart to know wisdom, and the knowledge of praise and understanding: I knew this also it is the striving of the spirit

I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.

I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.

And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.

And I said in my heart, As the event of the foolish one, also I, it will meet me; and wherefore then was I more wise? And I spake in my heart, This is also vanity.

And I turned about to let my heart despair for all the labor I labored under the sun.

For what was to man in all his labor, and in the striving of his heart, he labored under the sun?

For all his days pains, and vexation, his labor; also in the night his heart rested not Also this it is vanity.

He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.

I said in my heart, The just one and the unjust one, God will judge: for a time for every inclination and for every work there.

I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves.

Thou shalt not hasten with thy mouth, and thy heart shall not be quick to bring forth a word to the face of God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon the earth: for this thy words shall be few.

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

Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.

Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; and the heart of the foolish in the house of gladness.

For oppression will make foolish the wise one; and a gift will destroy the heart.

Also to all the words that shall be spoken thou shalt not give thy heart, that thou shalt not hear thy servant cursing thee.

For also many times thy heart knew that thou didst also curse others.

I went round about, I and my heart., to know, and to examine, and to search out wisdom and understanding, and to know the injustice of folly, and the folly of wickedness:

And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her.

Who as the wise one? and who will know the interpretation of the word? The wisdom of man shall enlighten his face, and the hard of face shall be hated.

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.

Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.

According as I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the labor that was done upon the earth: for also in the day and in the night he saw not sleep with his eyes.

For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them.

This an evil in all being done under the sun, thus one event is to all: and also the heart of the sons of man being full of evil, and folly in their heart in their living, and after it to their deaths.

Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.

And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard.

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

The heart of the wise one to his right, and the heart of the foolish one to his left.

And also as the foolish one went in the way, his heart was wanting, and he said to all, It is folly.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and thy heart shall do thee good in the days of thy youth, and go in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: and know thou, that for all these God will bring thee into judgment

And put away anger from thy heart, and cause evil to pass away from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.