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Like silver dross which sticks to an earthen pot, so are enraged lips and an evil heart.

Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a man who is moved from his place.

As oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so does the sweetness of a mans friend by hearty counsel.

Like a continual dripping on a rainy day, so is a quarrelsome woman.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man enlightens the face of his friend.

As faces do not resemble faces, so hearts do not resemble hearts.

Sheol and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

As the refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, so is a man tested by the mouth of those who praise him. The heart of the wicked desires evil, and the heart of the pious desires knowledge.

As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the poor.

So I became great, and my wealth increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem; my wisdom also remained with me.

So I looked around to behold wisdom and transgression and folly; for who is the man who can enter into judgment with the king? Especially with him who had created him.

The fool speaks superficially, but there is no remembrance of the wise man more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is, in the days to come shall be forgotten. And just as the wise man dies, so the fool.

He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has made the world dear to mans heart, so that no man can find out the works which the LORD has done from the beginning to the end.

I know that whatsoever the LORD does, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it; and the LORD has so made it that men should reverence him.

For the same misfortune which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one misfortune befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man has no preeminence over the beast; for all is vanity.

SO I turned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter to deliver them from the hand of their oppressors, having neither strength nor helper.

And this also is a grievous evil; for just as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has labored for the wind?

There is a man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of them; but a stranger eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

If a man beget a hundred children and live a multitude of years so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good things, and also that he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he.

For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of fools; this is also vanity.