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Life I have come to hate, for what is done under the sun disgusts me, since all is futility and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2, 17)
I know there is no happiness for a human being except in pleasure and enjoyment through life. (Ecclesiastes 3, 12)
So, rather than the living who still have lives to live, I congratulate the dead who have already met death; (Ecclesiastes 4, 2)
So my conclusion is this: true happiness lies in eating and drinking and enjoying whatever has been achieved under the sun, throughout the life given by God: for this is the lot of humanity. (Ecclesiastes 5, 17)
Or take someone who has had a hundred children and lived for many years, and, having reached old age, has never enjoyed the good things of life and has not even got a tomb; it seems to me, a still-born child is happier. (Ecclesiastes 6, 3)
who would never have known the good things of life, even by living a thousand years twice over. Do we not all go to the same place in the end? (Ecclesiastes 6, 6)
And who knows what is best for someone during life, during the days of futile life which are spent like a shadow? Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 6, 12)
Better a good name than costly oil, the day of death than the day of birth. (Ecclesiastes 7, 1)
For as money protects, so does wisdom, and the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom bestows life on those who possess her. (Ecclesiastes 7, 12)
In my futile life, I have seen everything: the upright person perishing in uprightness and the wicked person surviving in wickedness. (Ecclesiastes 7, 15)
And I find woman more bitter than Death, she is a snare, her heart is a net, and her arms are chains. The man who is pleasing to God eludes her, but the sinner is captured by her. (Ecclesiastes 7, 26)
No one can control the wind and stop it from blowing, no one can control the day of death. From war there is no escape, no more can wickedness save the person who commits it. (Ecclesiastes 8, 8)
