A reputation is as strong as a beautiful ointment. The days of death are better than the days of life.

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting, for death is the end of all. Even the living will take this matter to heart.

Sorrow is stronger than laughter, for a sorrowful expression will eventually bring joy to the heart.

The heart of a wise person is in a house of mourning. The heart of a foolish person is in a happy home.

It is better to listen to the rebuke of the wise than to the singing of fools.

The laughter of fools is like the explosion of thorns burning under a pot, this is also emptiness.

Extortion turns wise people into fools. Bribery can ruin a person’s intelligence.

The end of the matter is better than the beginning. Patience with a heart is better than pride with a heart.

Don’t be impatient and angry in your heart, for anger lies in the arms of fools.

Don’t say, what is the reason why the previous days were stronger than the present days? You are not asking out of wisdom.

Wisdom and industry are both good. Moreover, those who see the sky and the sun are more beneficial to gain wisdom.

Because wisdom protects people, just as money protects people. Only wisdom can preserve the life of wise people, and this is the benefit of knowledge.

You must examine the works of God, for if God makes them crooked, who can make them straight?

On the days of prosperity, be joyful. On the day of adversity, think. Because the gods juxtaposed these two things in order to make it impossible for people to find out what is happening behind them.

A righteous person who acts righteousness will eventually perish. If an evil person does evil, they will enjoy a long life. This is all I have seen in the days of idleness.

Don’t be too righteous. Don’t be too self righteous and wise. Why seek self destruction?

Don’t do too much evil. Don’t be foolish either. Why not die before the expiration date?

You hold onto this as beauty. Don’t let go of that either. For those who fear God will come out of these two things.

Wisdom makes wise people more powerful than ten officials in a city.

There is no righteous person in the world who often does good and does not sin.

Take not all that a man says to heart, lest he hear your servant curse you.

Because you know in your heart that you have also cursed others many times.

I have tested all of these things with wisdom. I said to seek wisdom, but wisdom is far from me.

The truth of everything is far from me, and it is the deepest. Who can fathom it?

I turned my mind to know, to examine, to seek wisdom, and to seek reasons for all things. Knowing that evil is ignorance, and ignorance is arrogance.

I have learned that there is a woman who is even more bitter than death. Her heart is a trap, and her hands are chains. Those who are pleased with God will be able to avoid her. The guilty person was entangled by her.

The preacher said, Look, among a thousand men, I have found one upright person. But none of the women were found. I will compare these things one by one to seek their reasoning, but my heart will still search for them, but I have not found them.

All I have found is one thing, that God created people upright, but they have found many clever schemes.