The Proclaimer sought to find out words giving delight, and to note down rightly, the words of truth.

Then again, I, looked at a vain thing under the sun: -

For, in vain, it came in, and, in darkness, it departeth, - and, with darkness, its name, is covered:

Here was a vain thing which was done upon the earth - that there were righteous men unto whom it happened according to the work of the lawless, and there were lawless men, unto whom it happened according to the work of the righteous, - I said, that, even this, was vanity.