³⁵ I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”^(A)

²⁹ your dead bodies shall fall in this very wilderness, and of all your number included in the census from twenty years old and up who have complained against me,^(A)

⁶⁴ Among these there was not one of those enrolled by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had enrolled the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.^{(A) 65} For the Lord had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.^(B)

¹³ The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that is the whole duty of everyone.^{(A) 14} For God will bring every deed into judgment, including^[a] every secret thing, whether good or evil.^(B)

⁸ Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher; all is vanity.

¹³ I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with.^{(A) 14} I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.^(B)