²² For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

³ What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

⁹ What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

⁶ In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

³⁴ Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

⁷ casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

⁸ but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.

²⁹ And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

²² And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for `your' life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.

²⁶ For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.

¹⁵ Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor `all' the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

⁷ All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

⁸ For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? `or' what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

¹⁷ All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

¹⁰ He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

¹¹ When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding `of them' with his eyes?

⁸ There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, `saith he', do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

⁶ Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

²⁶ The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him `thereto'.

² It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; `For' so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.