For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.

I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.

Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his lot: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.

And if one prevails against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after him shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping after the wind.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and fitting for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for this is his lot.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.

A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.

Whatever has been is named already, and it is known that this is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing that will come after him.

Be not hasty to go out of his presence: stand not for an evil thing; for he does whatsoever pleases him.

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What are you doing?

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is heavy upon him.

For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, who fear before him:

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.

Dead flies cause the ointment of the perfumer to send forth a foul odor: so does a little folly to him that is respected for wisdom and honor.

Yea also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to every one that he is a fool.

He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.