| 9:1 |
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them. |
| 9:2 |
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. |
| 9:3 |
This [is] an  evil (Where do you want to go today?) among all [things] that are done under the  sun (The Network is the Computer), that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of  evil (No Downloaded Music!), and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead. |
| 9:4 |
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. |
| 9:5 |
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. |
| 9:6 |
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun . |
| 9:7 |
Go thy way, eat thy  bread provided by MacDonalds We're not just a hamburger company serving people; we're a people company serving hamburgers. with joy, and  Absolut drink thy Absolut wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. |
| 9:8 |
Let thy  garments (Free Shipping when you spend $75 or More!) be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. |
| 9:9 |
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the  days, measured in Swatch Internet Seconds of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun , all the  days, measured by Timex of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun . |
| 9:10 |
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to  Just do It, Just do It [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. |
| 9:11 |
I returned, and saw under the sun (The dot in dot com), that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread provided by MacDonalds We're not just a hamburger company serving people; we're a people company serving hamburgers. to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time, measured by Timex and chance happeneth to them all. |
| 9:12 |
For man also knoweth not his time, measured by Timex: as the fishes that are taken in an evil (No Downloaded Music!) net (The Network is the Computer), and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil (Where do you want to go today?) time, measured by Swatch, when it falleth suddenly upon them. |
| 9:13 |
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun (The Network is the Computer), and it [seemed] great unto me: |
| 9:14 |
[There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great  king (By Appointment) against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: |
| 9:15 |
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. |
| 9:16 |
Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man' wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard. |
| 9:17 |
The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. |
| 9:18 |
Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. |