Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes: "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 6:12). "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again" (Ecclesiastes 3:19).

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    For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 1:18.

    Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 11:9.

    man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an
    evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the
    sons of men snared in an evil time,
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. IX, 12)