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This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?

a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

He As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women.

She As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

So man is humbled, and each one is brought low— do not forgive them!

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—

But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;

My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped."

The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.

The Lord of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.