For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

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

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he

Now there was found in it a poor wise man. And he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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

It is better to hear the rebuke of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Who is as the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

He who keeps a commandment shall know no evil thing. And a wise man's heart discerns the time and decision.

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

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

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens t

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.