The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.

I saw something else on earth: In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness.

Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

I considered all the living who walk on earth, as well as the successor who would arise in his place.

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.