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And I said in my heart, As the event of the fool is, so shall it be to me, even to me: and to what purpose have I gained wisdom? I said moreover in my heart, This is also vanity, because the fool speaks of his abundance.

So I hated life; because the work that was wrought under the sun was evil before me: for all is vanity and waywardness of spirit.

so I went about to dismiss from my heart all my labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.

Also to them is the event of the sons of man, and the event of the brute; one event befalls them: as is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; and there is one breath to all: and what has the man more than the brute? nothing; for all is vanity.

So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun: and behold the tear of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter:

So I returned, and saw vanity under the sun.

And this is also an evil infirmity: for as he came, so also shall he return: and what is his gain, for which he vainly labours?

As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools: this is also vanity.

So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things wherein man has power over man to afflict him.

Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones are hid in the womb of a pregnant woman, so thou shalt not know the works of God, even all things whatsoever he shall do.

And because the Preacher was wise above others, so it was that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables.

So long as the king was at table, my spikenard gave forth its smell.

As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, that thou hast so charged us?

and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.

So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day:

For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols.

Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so;