The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.

So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.

There was once a small city with a few men in it, and a mighty king attacked it, besieging it and building strong siege works against it.

and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up – because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets –