Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

"Look at this," says the Teacher. "Linking one thing to another, I reached this conclusion:

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

And I realized that there is an advantage to wisdom over folly, like the advantage of light over darkness.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldst thou destroy thyself?