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Moreouer the profit of the earth is for all: the king himselfe is serued by the field.

There is a sore euill which I haue seene vnder the Sun, namely riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt.

And this also is a sore euill, that in all points as he came, so shall hee goe: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the winde?

Behold that which I haue seene: It is good and comely for one to eate and to drinke, and to enioy the good of all his labour that he taketh vnder the sunne, all the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for it is his portion.

For he shall not much remember the dayes of his life: because God answereth him in the ioy of his heart.

A man to whom God hath giuen riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that he desireth, yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a stranger eateth it: This is vanitie, and it is an euill disease.

For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

For what hath the wise more then the foole? what hath the poore, that knoweth to walke before the liuing?

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the dayes of his vaine life, which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shal be after him vnder the sunne?

It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the liuing will lay it to his heart.

Sorrow is better then laughter: for by the sadnesse of the countenance the heart is made better.

It is better to heare the rebuke of the wise, then for a man to heare the song of fooles.

For as the crackling of thornes vnder a pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.

Be not hastie in thy spirit to bee angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former dayes were better then these? For thou doest not enquire wisely concerning this.

For wisedome is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellencie of knowledge is, that wisedome giueth life to them that haue it.

Consider the worke of God: for who can make that straight, which hee hath made crooked?

It is good that thou shouldest take holde of this, yea also from this withdraw not thine hand: for hee that feareth God, shall come foorth of them all.

For there is not a iust man vpon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.