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Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

Do not be hasty with your mouth or impulsive in your heart to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven but you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few.

But the advantage of the land in everything is this—a king committed to a cultivated field.

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

And those riches were lost through a bad endeavor; and he became the father of a son, but there was nothing in his hand for him.

If a man becomes the father of one hundred children and lives many years, however many the days of his years may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things, and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, "Better the miscarriage than he,

In the day when there is good be of good cheer,But in the day when there is evil see—God has made the one as well as the otherSo that man will not find out anything that will be after him.

I tested all this with wisdom, and I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me.

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is good before God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

which my soul still seeks but has not found. I have found one man out of a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.

See, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices."

But it will not be well for the wicked man, and he will not prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God openly.

For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he provided a way of escape for the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heard.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.

Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, but the lips of a fool swallow him up;

Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blooms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home, but the mourners go about in the street.

But in addition to this, my son, be warned: the making of many books is endless, and much devotion to books is wearying to the flesh.