for the poor youth has [used his wisdom and] come out of prison to become king, even though he was born poor in his kingdom.

“Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “while adding one thing to another to find an explanation,

All this I have seen while applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has exercised power over others to their detriment.

This evil is in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all. Also, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they go to the dead.