I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit

To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this?

And I turned to see wisdom, madness, and folly: for what the man that shall come after the king? with those things they did already.

He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.

And I praise the dead already dead more than the living they yet living.

And although he lived a thousand years twice, and he saw not good. Did not all go to one place?

And so then I saw the unjust buried, and they came and they will go from the holy place, and they will be forgotten in the city where they did thus: also this is vanity.

For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion.

For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten.