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14 or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.

8 What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?

9 Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

10 Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.

20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.

23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said, “I am determined to be wise”— but this was beyond me.

5 Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.

6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.

4 If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.

14 and fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming— who can tell someone else what will happen after them?

6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.

9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.

13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.

13 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.

14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.

18 It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.

27 “Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—

11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.