I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

All this hath he ordained marvelous goodly, to every thing his due time. He hath planted ignorance also in the hearts of men, that they should not find out the ground of his works, which he doth from the beginning to the end.

He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

Words of the wise are as goads, and as fences planted by the masters of collections, they have been given by one shepherd.