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.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.

a man to whom God has given 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 a stranger eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.

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

The words of a wise mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him.