"¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?"

"When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?"

"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."

"All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt."

"And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."

"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

"The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."

"¶ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem."

"And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit."

"But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity."