What is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun?

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

Is there a word will be said, See, this is new? This was already to a long time which was before us.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, "Lo, I am come to a great estate, and have gotten more wisdom, than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem." Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge,

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how does the wise man die? as the fool.

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man’s jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land.

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?

It is better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,
since that is the end of all mankind,
and the living should take it to heart.

It is better to listen to a wise person's rebuke than to listen to the praise of fools.

I have seen it all during my pointless life: both a righteous person who dies while he is righteous, and a wicked person who lives to an old age, while remaining wicked.

The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.

Who is a wise person? Who knows the solution to a problem? A person's wisdom brightens his appearance, and softens his harsh countenance.

But to him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it is better than to the dead lion.

If the serpent biteth without enchantment, Then there is no advantage to a master of the tongue.

The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.

In the morning sow thy seed, and at evening thou shalt not let thy hand rest: for thou shalt not know whether this shall be right, this or that, or if they two as one being good.