and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and
that of all sorts.

"So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in
Jerusalem; also my wisdom returned with me.

"Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on
the labour that I had laboured to do; and behold, all was vanity
and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

"All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous
and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the
unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not;
as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that
feareth an oath.

"This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that
there is one event unto all; yea, also the heart of the sons of men
is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and
after that they go to the dead.

"For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a
living dog is better than a dead lion.

"For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not
anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of
them is forgotten.

"Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now
perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything