Ecclesiastes

"I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity."

"The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep."

"I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil--this is the gift of God."

"Then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it."

"Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a mans face and changes its hard appearance."

"All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness."

"As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all."

"Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit."

"All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing."

"Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."

"And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there."

"Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise mans heart discerneth both time and judgment."