⁹ What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

³ What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

²³ In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

¹¹ Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

¹⁶ All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

²⁶ For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

²² What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

²³ All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.