The sun also arises, and the sun goes down and hastens to its place where it arises.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from where the rivers come, there they go again.

All things are full of weariness, man cannot utter [it]. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Is there a thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

There is no remembrance of the former [things], nor shall there be any remembrance of the latter that are to come, among those who shall come after.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten for me great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yea, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I made for me pools of water, to water from there the forest where trees were reared.

I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief, yea, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, without him?

a time to love, and a time to hate, a time for war, and a time for peace.

I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are beasts.

All go to one place. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words. But fear thou God.

If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For [a man] higher than the high is observing, and there are higher [men] than they.

When goods increase, they are increased who eat them. And what advantage is there to the owner of it, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Since there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Say thou not, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? For thou do not inquire wisely concerning this.

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

For the king's word [has] power, and who may say to him, What are thou doing?

There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.

So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to 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

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.

Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler:

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up.

Happy are thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy rulers feast in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,

in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows shall be darkened,

before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened [by] the masters of assemblies. They have been given from one shepherd.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.