For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also many vanities: but you fear God.

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.

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

Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.

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

But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

And further, my son, be admonished by these: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.