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For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Is it not good that man should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor? This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

And also that all of man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

Then I saw all labor and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

There is one that is alone, and he has not a second; yes, he has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yes, it is an intense travail.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falls, and does not have another to lift him up.

For out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

When goods increase, those that eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, except for looking at [them] with his eyes?

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked he shall go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

All his days also he eats in darkness, and he is intensely vexed, and has sickness and wrath.

Look, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him: for this is his portion.

All among man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God.

For he shall not remember much the days of his life; because God answers [him] in the joy of his heart.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat thereof, but an alien eats it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

If a man begets a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: