It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the livingwill lay it to his heart.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversityconsider: God alsohath set the one overagainst the other, to the end that man shouldfindnothingafter him.
All thingshave I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man thatperisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man thatprolongeth his life in his wickedness.
I appliedmineheart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
And I findmorebitterthandeath the woman, whoseheart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whosopleaseth God shallescapefrom her; but the sinnershall be taken by her.