What does the worker gain from his toil?
In all labour there is profit, But talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
What does man gain from all his labour in which he toils under the sun?
But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.
And this too is a grievous evil – exactly as he came, so he goes. And what gain has he since he toiled for the wind?
“For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and loses his own life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
that you also be subject to such, and to everyone who works and labours with us.
