Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?

Also if two lie together, {they can keep each other warm}. But how can one person be warm?

A poor but wise youth [is] better than an old but foolish king who no longer knows {how to receive advice}.

So do the wise [really] have an advantage over fools? {Can the poor [really] gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others}?

{Increasing words only multiplies futility}, how does that profit anyone?

"Look! I found this," said the Teacher, "while trying to find how the plan fits together.

I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth--how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep.

Just as you do not know how the path of the wind [goes], nor how the bones [of a fetus] form in a mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.