All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness; and I also knew that one event happens to all of them.

Then I said in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

For there is no memory of the wise more than of the fool forever, since that which is now shall all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise die above the fool!

And who knows whether he shall be wise or a fool? Yet he shall have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This is also vanity.

The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him.

For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice by the multitude of words.

For what has the wise more than the fool? What gain has the poor who knows how to walk before the living?

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.

Do not be very wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?

Whoever keeps the command shall feel no evil thing; and a wise man's heart knows both time and judgment.

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

A man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Yes also, in the way a fool walks, his heart fails; and he says to all that he is a fool.

He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks a hedge, a snake shall bite him.

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

A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty on the earth; and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

also they are afraid of the high place, and terrors along the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;