I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit
Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists
Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.