If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?

For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.

See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.

He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit.

But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming is vanity.

And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out -- he made right many similes.

And further, from these, my son, be warned; the making of many books hath no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.