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For who knoweth what [is] good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth [it] unto his heart.

Better [is] sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.

Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than [for] a man to hear a song of fools,

For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So [is] the laughter of a fool, even this [is] vanity.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

For wisdom [is] a defense, money [is] a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom [is], She reviveth her possessors.

See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

[It is] good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.

For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.

I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God.

Be not troubled at his presence, thou mayest go, stand not in an evil thing, for all that he pleaseth he doth.

For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.

For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred [times], and prolonging [himself] for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

But [to] him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it [is] better than to the dead lion.

For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.