I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

As you do not know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you do not know the work of God who does all.