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"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.

The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.

But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?

For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.

But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.

When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

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