¹⁶ And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

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

²⁹ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

²⁷ Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

³⁶ For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

⁷ For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

⁸ The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, `namely', riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

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

²³ For all his days are `but' sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

²¹ and turn ye not aside; for `then would ye go' after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.