There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?

What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were given birth to wind; we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up.

Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for on him has God the Father set his seal.