What do we gain from all our work?
Work and you will earn a living; if you sit around talking you will be poor.
You spend your life working, laboring, and what do you have to show for it?
Then I thought about all that I had done and how hard I had worked doing it, and I realized that it didn't mean a thing. It was like chasing the wind—of no use at all.
It isn't right! We go just as we came. We labor, trying to catch the wind, and what do we get?
Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life? Of course not! There is nothing you can give to regain your life.
to follow the leadership of such people as these, and of anyone else who works and serves with them.