17. And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
18. Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
19. Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?
20. Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.
21. For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
22. For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?
23. All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
24. Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.