What do workers gain from their toil?
All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.
This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?
What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
to submit to such people and to everyone who joins in the work and labors at it.
