13. There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded by its owner to his harm.
14. That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, he has nothing to leave to him.
15. Just as he came from his mother’s womb naked, he will depart just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil.
16. This also is a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit does he gain for all his toil for the wind?
17. Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated in much sickness and resentment.
18. Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and to enjoy all the fruit of the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him—for this is his lot.
19. This indeed is a gift of God: everyone to whom God gives wealth and possessions, he also empowers him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in the fruit of his toil.
20. For he does not remember the brief days of his life, for God keeps his heart preoccupied with enjoyment of life.