What profit have workers from their toil?
In all labor there is profit, but mere talk tends only to loss.
What profit have we from all the toil which we toil at under the sun?
But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the fruit of the toil for which I had toiled so much, see! all was vanity and a chase after wind. There is no profit under the sun.
All their days they eat in gloom with great vexation, sickness and resentment.
What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?
be subordinate to such people and to everyone who works and toils with them.