For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool.

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

then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

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

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face 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 extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

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

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 a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

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 happen to them all.

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

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

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; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.