I The Teacher Was King Over Israel

I Devoted Myself To Study And Explore

By Wisdom All That Is Done Under Heaven

What A Heavy Burden God Has Laid On Men



I Have Seen All The Things That Are Done

Under The Sun, A Chasing After The Wind



What Is Twisted Can Not Be Straightened

What Is Lacking Can Not Be Counted



I Applied Myself To The Understanding

Of Wisdom And Also Of Madness And Folly

But I Learned That This Too

Is A Chasing After The Wind



What Is Twisted Can Not Be Straightened

What Is Lacking Can Not Be Counted

With Much Wisdom Comes Much Sorrow

The More Knowledge The More Grief



I Denied Myself Nothing

My Eyes Desired

I Refused My Heart No Pleasure

My Heart Took Delight In All My Work



And This Was The Reward For All My Labour

Yet When I Surveyed All That My Hands Had Done



And What I Had Toiled To Achieve

Everything Was A Chasing After The Wind



The Fate Of The Fool Will Overtake Me

What Then Do I Gain By Being Wise

For The Wise Man Like The Fool

Will Not Be Long Remembered



In The Days To Come Both Will Be Forgotten

Like The Fool, The Wise Man Too Must Die



I The Teacher Was King Over Israel

I Devoted Myself To Study And Explore