Morris.] *^lt) [Oct. 5, 



I refused not my heart any pleasure, 

 Because my lieart rejoiced in all my labor : 

 And this was my portion from all my labor. 



11 And I beheld all the works which my hands had wrought, 

 And on the labor I had labored to do. 



And behold all was perplexity, and grasping of wind 

 And there is no profit under the sun. 



12 And I looked to consider wisdom. 

 And excess and folly : 



For what man shall follow (i. e., excel) after this plan ? 

 Such he (the King) hath done (already). 



13 And I saw that wisdom excels folly 

 As light excels darkness. 



14 The eyes of the wise are in his head : 

 And the fool walks in darkness : 

 And I know, even I, 



That one end shall meet them all. 



15 And I said in my heart, 

 As the ending of the fool 



Shall there be an ending even to me : 

 And wherefore was I wise ? 

 I spoke moreover in my heart 

 That even this is perplexity. 

 Because the fool speaks from excess, 



16 That there is no memory of the wise 



Any more than of the fool through Eternity, 

 Because in the coming days all shall be forgotten. 

 And how dies the wise man as the fool ? 



17 And I hated life : 

 For it was evil to me, 



The work done under the sun : 



For all is perplexity, and grasping of wind. 



18 And I hated all ray labor 



In which I labor under the sun. 



19 For I shall leave it to the man who comes after me : 

 And who knows whether he shall be wise or a fool ? 

 And whether he shall have authority in all my labor 

 In which I have labored and been wise under the sun ? 

 This indeed is perplexity. 



20 Then I turned to detach my heart 



From all my labor which I had labored under the sun. 



21 For there is a man, whose labor is in wisdom 

 And in knowledge and in manliness : 



And the man shall give his portion to one who did not labor in it ! 



This is indeed perplexity and great injustice. 



That it happens thus to the man 



In all his labor and the grasping of his heart. 



