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• Who compares with the sage? Who else knows how to explain things? Wisdom lights up the face, enlivening a grim expression. (Ecclesiastes 8, 1)

• One who obeys the command will come to no harm; the heart of the sage knows the right moment and verdict, (Ecclesiastes 8, 5)

• I have scrutinised God's whole creation: you cannot get to the bottom of everything taking place under the sun; you may wear yourself out in the search, but you will never find it. Not even a sage can get to the bottom of it, even if he says that he has done so. (Ecclesiastes 8, 17)

• The living are at least aware that they are going to die, but the dead know nothing whatever. No more wages for them, since their memory is forgotten. (Ecclesiastes 9, 5)

• But there was in that town a poverty-stricken sage who by his wisdom saved the town. No one remembered this poor man afterwards. (Ecclesiastes 9, 15)

• The sage's heart leads him aright, the fool's leads him astray. (Ecclesiastes 10, 2)

• The sayings of a sage give pleasure, what a fool says procures his own ruin: (Ecclesiastes 10, 12)

• Rid your heart of indignation, keep your body clear of suffering, though youth and the age of black hair are both futile. (Ecclesiastes 11, 10)

• Besides being a sage, Qoheleth taught the people what he himself knew, having weighed, studied and emended many proverbs. (Ecclesiastes 12, 9)

• The sayings of a sage are like goads, like pegs positioned by shepherds: the same shepherd finds a use for both. (Ecclesiastes 12, 11)

• Come, my love, let us go to the fields. We will spend the night in the villages, (Song of Solomon 7, 12)

• 'As for the upright man who is poor, let us oppress him; let us not spare the widow, nor respect old age, white-haired with many years. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 10)