What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

Don't be hasty to go out of his presence. Don't persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.