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For wisdom is a shelter, and money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom keeps the one who has it alive.

When things are going well, enjoy yourself; but when things are going badly, consider that God made the one alongside the other, so that people would learn nothing of their futures.

But don't be overly wicked, and don't be foolish; why should you die before your time?

All this I have put to the test of wisdom; I said, "I will acquire wisdom"; but wisdom remained far away from me.

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is a snare and whose hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God will escape from her, but the sinner will be caught by her.

I searched a long time without finding it: one man in a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found.

This is the only thing I have found, that God made human beings upright, but they have devised many schemes.

Thus I saw the wicked buried; they had even come from the Holy Place. But those who had acted uprightly were forgotten in the city. This too is a futile thing;

But things will not go well with the wicked; and, like a shadow, he will not prolong his days; because he doesn't fear God.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; there is no longer any reward for them, because all memory of them is lost.

Now there was found in it a man who was poor but wise, and by his wisdom he saved the city; yet afterwards, nobody remembered that poor man.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but a person who makes a mistake can destroy much good.

A wise man's heart leads him rightly, but a fool's heart leads him astray;

If the [hatchet's] iron [blade] is blunt, and [its user] doesn't sharpen it, he will have to exert more effort; but the expert has the advantage of his skill.

The words spoken by the wise bring them favor, but the lips of a fool swallow him up.

[She] I am dark tan but beautiful, you daughters of Yerushalayim, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Shlomo.

Don't stare at me because I'm dark; it's the sun that tanned me. My mother's sons were angry with me and made me look after the vineyards. But I haven't cared for my own vineyard.

I am but a rose from the Sharon, just a lily in the valleys.

Night after night on my bed I looked for the man I love. I looked for him, but I didn't find him.

"I will get up now and roam the city, through the streets and the open places, I will look for the man I love." I looked for him, but I didn't find him.