For what else hath a man, of all the labor that he taketh under the Sun?

applied my mind to seek out and search for the knowledge of all things that are done under heaven. Such travail and labor hath God given to the children of men, to exercise themselves therein.

For what getteth a man of all the labor and travail of his mind, that he taketh under the Sun,

For all that a man eateth and drinketh, yea whatsoever a man enjoyeth of all his labor, the same is a gift of God.

"One handful," sayeth he, "is better with rest, than both the hands full with labor and travail."

Use thy self to live joyfully with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life which is but vanity, that God hath given thee under the Sun; all the days of thy vanity. For that is thy portion in this life, of all thy labor and travail that thou takest under the Sun.

This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?