<p class="poetry">A time to search, and a time to give something up as lost;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a time to keep, and a time to throw away;p>

<p class="poetry">Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been;p> <p class="poetry">for God will seek to do again<n id="1" /> what has occurred<n id="2" /> in the past.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The Teacher sought to find delightful<n id="1" /> words,p> <p class="poetry">and to write<n id="2" /> accurately truthful sayings.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I tried<n id="1" /> to understand, examine, and comprehend<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the role of<n id="3" /> wisdom in the scheme of things,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and to understand the stupidity of wickedness<n id="5" /> and the insanity of folly.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">What I have continually sought, I have not found;p> <p class="poetry">I have found only<n id="1" /> one upright<n id="2" /> man among a thousand,p> <p class="poetry">but I have not found one upright woman among all of them.p>

<p class="poetry">This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright,p> <p class="poetry">but they have sought many evil schemes.p>

<p class="poetry">then I discerned all that God has done:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No one really comprehends what happens<n id="2" /> on earth.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Despite all human<n id="4" /> efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp<n id="5" /> it.<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">Even if<n id="7" /> a wise person claimed<n id="8" /> that he understood,p> <p class="poetry">he would not really comprehend<n id="9" /> it.<n id="10" />p>