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.
25. Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
26. God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.