One generation goes, and another generation comes, but the earth abides forever.

I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief, yea, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

I know that, whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God has done it that men should fear before him.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words. But fear thou God.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

A man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found: among a thousand I have found one man, but among all those I have not found a woman.

Behold, this only I have found: That God made man upright, but they have sought out many contrivances.

But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens t

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart at his left.

He who digs a pit shall fall into it, and he who breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

If the iron be blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must increase strength. But wisdom is advantageous to make right.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up.

Yea, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgmen

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.