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so is one who deceives a neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.

Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.

Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, so a person is tested by being praised.

For as pressing milk produces curds, and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing anger produces strife.

So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.

So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the one do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

Then I said to myself, "What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?" And I said to myself that this also is vanity.

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

So I turned and gave my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labors under the sun,

I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him.

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?

As they came from their mother's womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil, which they may carry away with their hands.

This also is a grievous ill: just as they came, so shall they go; and what gain do they have from toiling for the wind?

those to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that they lack nothing of all that they desire, yet God does not enable them to enjoy these things, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous ill.

The more words, the more vanity, so how is one the better?

For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of 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 mortals may not find out anything that will come after them.