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 has he that he toiled for the wind,
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer.
