Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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

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.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.