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I found something more bitter than death—the woman who is like a trap. The love she offers you will catch you like a net, and her arms around you will hold you like a chain. A man who pleases God can get away, but she will catch the sinner.

I have looked for other answers but have found none. I found one man in a thousand that I could respect, but not one woman.

This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.

There is a right time and a right way to do everything, but we know so little!

Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, but on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil. It is useless.

but it will not go well for the wicked. Their life is like a shadow and they will die young, because they do not obey God."

But this is nonsense. Look at what happens in the world: sometimes the righteous get the punishment of the wicked, and the wicked get the reward of the righteous. I say it is useless.

and never be able to understand what God is doing. However hard you try, you will never find out. The wise may claim to know, but they don't.

But anyone who is alive in the world of the living has some hope; a live dog is better off than a dead lion.

Yes, the living know they are going to die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward; they are completely forgotten.

Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.

I have always said that wisdom is better than strength, but no one thinks of the poor as wise or pays any attention to what they say.

Wisdom does more good than weapons, but one sinner can undo a lot of good.

What the wise say brings them honor, but fools are destroyed by their own words.

But a country is fortunate to have a king who makes his own decisions and leaders who eat at the proper time, who control themselves and don't get drunk.

Feasting makes you happy and wine cheers you up, but you can't have either without money.

Young people, enjoy your youth. Be happy while you are still young. Do what you want to do, and follow your heart's desire. But remember that God is going to judge you for whatever you do.

Your ears will be deaf to the noise of the street. You will barely be able to hear the mill as it grinds or music as it plays, but even the song of a bird will wake you from sleep.

But because the Philosopher was wise, he kept on teaching the people what he knew. He studied proverbs and honestly tested their truth.

The Philosopher tried to find comforting words, but the words he wrote were honest.