What gain has the worker from his toil?
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.
