2:13 I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly,
just as light is preferable to darkness:
2:25 For no one
or experience joy
4:2 So I considered
more fortunate than those who are still alive.
4:9 Two people are better than one,
because they can reap
6:8 So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool?
And what advantage
7:23 I have examined all this by wisdom;
I said, “I am determined
6:3 Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years –
even if he lives a long, long time,
even if he were to live forever
I would say, “A stillborn child
3:20 Both go to the same place,
both come from the dust,
and to dust both return.
6:10 Whatever has happened was foreordained,
and what happens to a person
It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate
because God is more powerful than he is.
9:4 But whoever is among
a live dog is better than a dead lion.
3:14 I also know that whatever God does will endure forever;
nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it.
God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.
3:19 For the fate of humans
As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath.
There is no advantage for humans over animals,
for both are fleeting.
5:19 To every man whom God has given wealth, and possessions,
he has also given him the ability
to eat from them, to receive his reward and to find enjoyment in his toil;
these things
6:2 God gives a man riches, property, and wealth
so that he lacks nothing that his heart
yet God does not enable
instead, someone else
This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.
7:26 I discovered this:
More bitter than death is the kind of
her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains.
The man who pleases God escapes her,
but the sinner is captured by her.