Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it was from the hand of God.

And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

I saw all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child who shall stand up in his place.

And so I saw the wicked buried, and they came and went from the holy place. And they were forgotten in the city, these things that they had done. This is also vanity.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.