Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is heavy upon him.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is one who neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes:)

For man also knows not his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days.

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be upon the earth.

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.