For it was done amidst a multitude of dreams, and vanities, and many words, - but, towards God, be thou reverent.

Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!

For truly, many times, thy heart knoweth, - that, even thou thyself, hast reviled others.

Only, see, this, have I found, That God made man upright, but, they, have sought out many devices.

Cast thy bread-corn, upon the face of the waters, - for, after many days, shalt thou find it:

But, though, many years, a man live, through them all, let him rejoice; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for many they may be, all that cometh, may be vanity.

And besides, from them, my son, be admonished, - Of making many books, there is no end, and, much study, is a weariness of the flesh.