It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and for the unclean; for the man who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good man is, so is the sinner; as the swearer is, so is the one who is afraid to swear.

Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.

A good name is better than a good ointment,
And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.

It is good that you grasp one thing and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them.