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So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a person under the sun except to eat, drink, and be joyful, and this will stand by him in his labor throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

and I saw every work of God, I concluded that one cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though a person laboriously seeks, he will not discover; and even if the wise person claims to know, he cannot discover.

It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and the unclean; for the person who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good person is, so is the sinner; the one who swears an oath is just as the one who is afraid to swear an oath.

For whoever is joined to all the living, there is hope; for better a live dog, than a dead lion.

For the living know that they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have a reward any longer, for their memory is forgotten.

Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.

Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.

For indeed, a person does not know his time: like fish that are caught in a treacherous net and birds caught in a snare, so the sons of mankind are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

there was a small city with few men in it, and a great king came to it, surrounded it, and constructed large siegeworks against it.

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

The words of the wise heard in calm are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

Dead flies turn a perfumer's oil rancid, so a little foolishness is more potent than wisdom and honor.

A wise person's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish person's heart directs him toward the left.

Even when the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he demonstrates to everyone that he is a fool.

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a mistake that proceeds from the ruler:

One who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite one who breaks through a wall.

Words from the mouth of a wise person are gracious, while the lips of a fool consume him;

The labor of a fool makes him so weary that he does not even know how to go to a city.

Woe to you, land whose king is a boy, and whose princes feast in the morning.

People prepare a meal for enjoyment, wine makes life joyful, and money is the answer to everything.