As for men, God tests them so that
they may see that they are like the animals.
Man’s fate is like that of the animals;
the same fate awaits them both:
As one dies, so dies the other.
All have the same breath;
man has no advantage over the animal.
Everything is meaningless.
All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward
and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven

For the wise man, like the fool,
will not be long remembered;
in days to come both will be forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise man too must die!

I thought to myself,
“Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom
more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me;
I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.”
Then 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 has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

For nothing is impossible with God.