For a wise man beareth his eyes about in his head, but the fool goeth in the darkness. I perceived also that they both had one end.

Then thought I in my mind, "If it happeneth unto the fool as it doth unto me, what needeth me then to labour any more for wisdom?" So I confessed within my heart, that this also was but vanity.

For the wise are ever as little in remembrance as the foolish, and all the days for to come shall be forgotten, yea the wise man dieth as well as the fool.

For who knoweth, whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with such wisdom have taken under the Sun. Is not this a vain thing?

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth up his own flesh.

"One handful," sayeth he, "is better with rest, than both the hands full with labor and travail."

If one of them fall, his companion helpeth him up again: But woe is him that is alone, for if he fall, he hath not another to help him up.

For what hath the wise more than the fool? What helpeth it the poor, that he knoweth to walk before the living?

Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.

Whoso keepeth the commandment, shall feel no harm: but a wise man's heart discerneth time and manner.

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

Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.

A wise man's heart is upon the righthand, but a fool's heart is upon the left.

A doting fool thinketh, that every man doth as foolishly as himself.

in that a fool sitteth in great dignity, and the rich are set down beneath.

But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

When an iron is blunt, and the point not sharpened, it must be whet again, and that with might. Even so doth wisdom follow diligence.

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?

Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.

When the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth. And when the tree falleth, whether it be toward the South or North, in what place soever it fall, there it lieth.

Be glad then, O thou young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart be merry in thy young days; follow the ways of thine own heart, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shall bring thee into judgment for all these things.