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

³ What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

²⁹ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

²⁷ Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

⁷ For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

⁸ The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors 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 sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

²² For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

²³ For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

²¹ And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.