What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done. And there is no new thing under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

And I turned myself to behold wisdom and madness and folly. For what [can] the man [do] who comes after the king? [Even] that which has been done long ago.

And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?

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

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men to be employed therewith.

That which is, has been long ago, and that which is to be, has long ago been. And God seeks again that which has passed away.

For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts, even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts; for all is vanity.

When thou vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou vow.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

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 that straight, which he has made crooked?

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found: among a thousand I have found one man, but among all those I have not found a woman.

For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?

All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. [There is] a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked, again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that

Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler:

A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought, and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber. For a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly--words of truth.