Is there a thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th

a time to seek, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away,

I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men to be employed therewith.

I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are beasts.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For [a man] higher than the high is observing, and there are higher [men] than they.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it, this [one] has rest rather than the other.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yea, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.

I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. [There is] a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he

I have also seen wisdom under the sun this way, and it seemed great to me:

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler:

I have seen servants upon horses, and rulers walking like servants upon the earth.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.