Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.

Moreover, he seeth not the Sun, and knoweth of no rest neither here nor there:

Here is a pointless thing that happens on earth: A righteous man receives what happens to the wicked, and a wicked man receives what happens to the righteous. I concluded that this, too, is pointless.

Here's another tragedy that I've observed on earth, a kind of error that comes from an overseer:

The Teacher searched to find appropriate expressions, and what is written here is right and truthful.