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Going to the south and turning round about to the north, it turned round about; the wind turned round about, going, and the wind turned back upon its circuits.

All the torrents going into the sea, and the sea not full: to the place the torrents going, there they turn back to go.

All words becoming weary; man shall not be able to speak: the eye shall not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall not be filled from hearing.

Is there a word will be said, See, this is new? This was already to a long time which was before us.

No remembrance to former things; and also to the latter things that shall be; to them shall be no remembrance with them which shall be for the latter state.

And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom concerning all which was done under the heavens: this evil business God gave to the sons of man to be occupied in it

The crooked thing shall not be able to be made straight: and the deficiency shall not be able to be numberd

And I will give my heart to know wisdom, and the knowledge of praise and understanding: I knew this also it is the striving of the spirit

I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.

I magnified my work; I builded to me houses; I planted to me vineyards:

I made to me gardens and pleasure grounds, and I planted in them a tree of all fruit

I made to me pools of waters to water from them the forest, causing trees to spring forth.

I obtained servants and maids, and sons of the house were to me; also obtaining cattle, and many sheep were to me more than all that were before me in Jerusalem.

I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses.

And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me.

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

And I turned to see wisdom, madness, and folly: for what the man that shall come after the king? with those things they did already.

And I saw there is profit to wisdom more than to folly, as the excellence of the light above darkness.

For no remembrance for the wise with the foolish one forever, since in the days coming, all being forgotten. And how will the wise die? with the foolish one.

And I hated life, for evil to me the work done under the sun: for all vanity and striving of the spirit

And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me.

And I turned about to let my heart despair for all the labor I labored under the sun.

For there is man his labor in wisdom, and in knowledge and in success; and to man not laboring in it he shall give his portion. Also this is vanity and much evil.

For what was to man in all his labor, and in the striving of his heart, he labored under the sun?

Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.

For to a man good before his face, he gave wisdom and knowledge and gladness: and to him sinning, he gave labor, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good one before the face of God. Also this is vanity and the striving of the spirit.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance:

A time to cast away stones, and a time to collect stones a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing:

A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to watch, and a time to cast away

I saw the labor which God gave to the sons of man to be humbled in it

I knew that all which God will do it shall be forever: to it not to be added, and from it not to be taken away: and God doing they shall be afraid from his face.

What was, it is already; and what to be, was already; and God will seek him being driven away.

I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves.

For the event of the sons of man, and the event of the cattle, one event to them: as this, so dies this; and the breath of one to all; and the preeminence of man not above the cattle: for all is vanity.

All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust.

Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth.

And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?

And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.

And good above them two which were not yet, which saw not the evil work which was done under the sun.

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

For if they shall fall, the one will raise up his companion: and wo to him, the one that shall fall, and not a second to raise him up.

And if one shall become strong against him, two shall stand before him; and a three-fold thread shall not be quickly broken.

For from the house of those turning away he came forth to reign; for also he being born in his kingdom became poor.

No end to all the people, to all which were before them: also the last ones shall not rejoice in him. For also this is vanity and striving of the spirit

Watch thy feet when thou shalt go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than give the sacrifice of the foolish, for they not knowing the doing of evil.

Thou shalt not hasten with thy mouth, and thy heart shall not be quick to bring forth a word to the face of God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon the earth: for this thy words shall be few.

When thou shalt vow a vow to God, thou shalt not delay to repay it; for there is no desire in the foolish: repay what thou shalt vow.

Thou shalt not give thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; and thou shalt not say to the face of the messenger that it is an error: wherefore shall God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

And the profit of the earth in all: it is the king being served to the field.

In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes?

The sleep of the servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep.

There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.

According as he came forth from his mother's womb, naked he shall turn back to go as he came, and he shall not take away anything in his labor that shall go in his hand.

And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind?

Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.

Also every man which God gave to him wealth and riches, and permitted him to eat from it, and to lift up his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this the gift of God himself.

A man which God will give to him wealth and riches and honor, and wanting not to his soul from all which he shall desire, and God will not permit him to eat from it, for a man, a stranger shall eat it. This is vanity and it is an evil disease.

Also he saw not the sun, and he knew not rest to this above this.

And although he lived a thousand years twice, and he saw not good. Did not all go to one place?

For what will remain to the wise one more than the foolish one? what to the poor that shall know to go before the living

What was, its name was called already, and it was known that it is man: and he shall not be able to contend with the powerful above him.

For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?

Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.

Good to hear the reproof of the wise one, above a man hearing the song of the foolish:

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and a remainder to those seeing the sun.

See the work of God: for who shall be able to make straight what he made it crooked?

Thou shalt not be greatly wicked, and thou shalt not be foolish: wherefore wilt thou die not in thy time?

Wisdom shall strengthen to the wise one more than ten having power which were in the city.

Also to all the words that shall be spoken thou shalt not give thy heart, that thou shalt not hear thy servant cursing thee.

I went round about, I and my heart., to know, and to examine, and to search out wisdom and understanding, and to know the injustice of folly, and the folly of wickedness:

See, this I found, said the preacher: one to one to find understanding

Thou shalt not hasten going from his face: thou shalt not stand by the word of evil; for he shall do all that he will desire.

Wheresoever the word of a king, it is powerful: and who shall say to him, What wilt thou do?

No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.

All this I saw, and giving my heart to every work which was done under the sun: a time which man had power overman for evil to him.

Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.

Whoever sinned, doing evil a hundred, and it being prolonged to him, for also I know that it will be to those fearing God, who shall be afraid from his face.

And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.