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Many daughters have done worthily, But you excel them all.

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth abides forever.

For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

For to [the] man that pleases him [God] gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of man, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, look, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falls, and does not have another to lift him up.

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [alone]?

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear God.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

a man to whom God gives 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 thereof, but an alien eats it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

If a man begets a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him that has it.

All this I have proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found: of man one among a thousand I have found; but a woman among all those I have not found.

Look, this only I have found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he does not fear before God.