And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

then I saw that all is the work of God, and that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek it out, yet doth he not find it; and even, if a wise man think to know it, he shall not be able to find it out.

and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad, and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart knoweth time and manner.

The heart of a wise man 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 swallow up himself.

Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men that are in a city.

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 the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

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

Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the explanation of things? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.

For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.