When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it. For God takes no pleasure in fools: Pay what you vow!

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

Just as there is futility in many dreams, so also in many words. Therefore, fear God!

This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.

For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

I have observed the burden that God has given to people to keep them occupied.

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 are the gift of God.

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.

Do not be rash with your mouth or hasty in your heart to bring up a matter before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth! Therefore, let your words be few.

Obey the king’s command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.

I also thought to myself, “It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.

and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God.

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

It is best to take hold of one warning without letting go of the other warning; for the one who fears God will follow both warnings.

But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.