What gain, then, does the laborer get with his toil?
In all hard work there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
What does a person gain in all his labor that he toils under the sun?
Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended to accomplish it, behold, it all was futile and chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
So, all his days he eats in darkness, and he has much grief, sickness, and humiliation.
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
also to submit to people such as these, and to everyone working together and laboring.
