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• 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)

• Better go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting; for to this end everyone comes, let the living take this to heart. (Ecclesiastes 7, 2)

• In my futile life, I have seen everything: the upright person perishing in uprightness and the wicked person surviving in wickedness. (Ecclesiastes 7, 15)

• But I have reached the point where, having learnt, explored and investigated wisdom and reflection, I recognise evil as being a form of madness, and folly as something stupid. (Ecclesiastes 7, 25)

• This is what I think, says Qoheleth, having examined one thing after another to draw some conclusion, (Ecclesiastes 7, 27)

• Obey the king's command and, because of the divine promise, (Ecclesiastes 8, 2)

• I have seen all this to be so, having carefully studied everything taking place under the sun, while one person tyrannises over another to the former's detriment. (Ecclesiastes 8, 9)

• And again, I have observed the wicked carried to their graves, and people leaving the holy place and, once out in the city, forgetting how the wicked used to behave; how futile this is too! (Ecclesiastes 8, 10)

• Having applied myself to acquiring wisdom and to observing the activity taking place in the world -- for day and night our eyes enjoy no rest- (Ecclesiastes 8, 16)

• But there is hope for someone still linked to the rest of the living: better be a live dog than a dead lion. (Ecclesiastes 9, 4)

• 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)

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