And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.

For in much wisdom [is] much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all [was] vanity and grasping for the wind. [There was] no profit under the sun.

Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun [was] distressing to me, for all [is] vanity and grasping for the wind.

For [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who [is] good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to [him who is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and grasping for the wind.

Thus Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.

Indeed, You have made my days [as] handbreadths, And my age [is] as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state [is] but vapor. Selah

Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up [riches,] And does not know who will gather them.