¹⁶ Better `is' a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.

⁸ Better `is' a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.

⁶ but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment;

¹⁶ Better `is' the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

¹⁰ Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity.

¹¹ In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit `is' to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

¹² Sweet `is' the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

²² The blessing of Jehovah -- it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

⁶ Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

¹⁰ 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 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!

¹⁸ 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 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 And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

²¹ 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 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.