Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also:

For who will eat or go more lustily to his work than I?

Wherefore I perceive, that there is nothing better for a man, than to be joyful in his labour, for that is his portion. But who will bring him to see the thing that shall come after him?

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh for to sin, neither say thou before the angel that it is thy ignorance. For then God will be angry at thy voice, and destroy all the works of thine hands.

He that loveth money, will never be satisfied with money: and whoso delighteth in riches, shall have no profit thereof. Is not this also a vain thing?

A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much that he eateth; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?

And I found, that a woman is bitterer than death: for she is a very angle, her heart is a net, and her hands are chains. Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be taken with her.

For everything will have opportunity and judgment, and this the thing that maketh men full of carefulness and sorrow.

And why? A man knoweth not what is for to come: for who will tell him?

The words out of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will destroy himself.

A fool is so full of words, that a man cannot tell what end he shall make. Who will then warn him of it that shall follow after him?