¹⁶ And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

³ What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

²⁹ Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

²⁷ work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'

³⁶ for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

⁷ For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

⁸ The priests have not said, `Where `is' Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

¹⁸ We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.

¹³ There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

²² 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 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

²¹ and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they `are' vain,