What more does a man have from his labor?
In every work, there shall be abundance. But where there are many words, there is often need.
What more does a man have from all his labor, as he labors under the sun?
But when I turned myself toward all the works that my hands had made, and to the labors in which I had perspired to no purpose, I saw emptiness and affliction of the soul in all things, and that nothing is permanent under the sun.
All the days of his life he consumes: in darkness, and with many worries, and in distress as well as sadness.
For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet truly suffers damage to his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
So you should be subject also to persons such as this, as well as to all who are cooperating and working with them.
