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

What is crooked cannot be made straight; and that lacking cannot be numbered.

I said of laughter, It is madness; and of mirth, What does it do?

I sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.

And I turned to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king, when they have already done it?

For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pull up what is planted;

What profit does he have who works in that in which he labors?

Therefore I have seen that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

When the good thing increases, those who eat it increase; then what profit is it to its owners, except to see it with their eyes?

And this also is a sore evil, that in all, as he came, so shall he go; and what profit does he have who has labored for the wind?

For what has the wise more than the fool? What gain has the poor who knows how to walk before the living?

For there are many things that increase vanity, and what is man the better?

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked?

Because the word of a king is that which has power; and who may say to him, What are you doing?

For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Give a share to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be on the earth.

As you do not know what is the way of the spirit, as how the bones grow in the pregnant woman's womb; even so you do not know the works of God who makes all.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know what shall be blessed, either this or that, or whether they both shall be fruitful in the same way.