Wisdom & Truth Verses

There is one {alone}, and {there is} not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet {is there} no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither {saith he}, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This {is} also vanity, yea, it {is} a sore travail.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him {that is} alone when he falleth; for {he hath} not another to help him up.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter {any} thing before God: for God {is} in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. {thing: or, word}

Better {is it} that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it {was} an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good {is there} to the owners thereof, saving the beholding {of them} with their eyes?

And this also {is} a sore evil, {that} in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}

That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it {is} man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what {is} man the better?