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

If a man begetteth a hundred children, and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he hath no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

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

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

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

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

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge: yes, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

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