I turned about, and my heart {\i was set} to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason {\i of things}, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.
While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: {\i there is} a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),
The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are {\i the words of} the masters of assemblies, {\i which} are given from one shepherd.