Is there anything, whereof it may be said, "Lo, this is new?" For it was long ago in the times that have been before us.

Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, "Lo, I am come to a great estate, and have gotten more wisdom, than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem." Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge,

Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also:

But when I considered all the works that my hands had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therein: Lo, all was vanity and vexation of mind, and nothing of any value under the Sun.

If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

The thing that hath been is named already, and known - that it is man himself: neither may he go to law with him that is mightier than he.

Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.

when the doors in the streets shall be shut, and when the voice of the miller shall be laid down; when men shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and when all the daughters of music shall be brought low;