4. Whoever watches the wind will never plant. Whoever looks at the clouds will never harvest.
5. Just as you don’t know how the breath of life enters the limbs of a child within its mother’s womb, you also don’t understand how God, who made everything, works.
6. Plant your seed in the morning, and don’t let your hands rest until evening. You don’t know whether this field or that field will be profitable or whether both of them will ⌊turn out⌋ equally well.
7. Light is sweet, and it is good for one’s eyes to see the sun.
8. Even though people may live for many years, they should enjoy every one of them. But they should also remember there will be many dark days. Everything that is coming is pointless.
9. You young people should enjoy yourselves while you’re young. You should let your hearts make you happy when you’re young. Follow wherever your heart leads you and whatever your eyes see. But realize that God will make you give an account for all these things when he judges everyone.
10. Get rid of what troubles you or wears down your body, because childhood and youth are pointless.