^{10 Ref} And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

^{11 Ref} and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

^{12 Ref} And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!

^{13 Ref} And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

^{14 Ref} The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

^{15 Ref} and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

^{16 Ref} That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

^{17 Ref} And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

^{18 Ref} And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

^{19 Ref} And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

^{20 Ref} And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

^{21 Ref} For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

^{22 Ref} For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

^{23 Ref} For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

^{24 Ref} There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

^{25 Ref} For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

^{26 Ref} For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.