2:11 Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished
and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it,
I concluded:
like chasing the wind!
There is nothing gained
2:15 So I thought to myself, “The fate of the fool will happen even to me!
Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively
So I lamented to myself,
“The benefits of wisdom
2:17 So I loathed
happens
for all the benefits of wisdom
2:19 Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool?
Yet
for which I worked so wisely
This also is futile!
2:21 For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill;
however, he must hand over
to someone else who did not work for it.
This also is futile, and an awful injustice!
2:23 For all day long
and even at night his mind cannot relax!
This also is futile!
2:26 For to the one who pleases him,
but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing
only to give
This
3:19 For the fate of humans
As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath.
There is no advantage for humans over animals,
for both are fleeting.
4:4 Then I considered
Surely it is nothing more than
This also is profitless – like
4:8 A man who is all alone with no companion,
he has no children nor siblings;
yet there is no end to all his toil,
and he
He laments,
This also is futile and a burdensome task!
4:16 There is no end to all the people
yet future generations
This also is profitless and like
5:10 The one who loves money
he who loves wealth
This also is futile.
6:11 The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes.
How does that benefit him?
11:8 So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all,
but let him remember that the days of darkness
11:10 Banish
and put away pain
for youth
12:8 “Absolutely futile!”
“All of these things
39:5 Look, you make my days short-lived,
and my life span is nothing from your perspective.
Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.
39:6 Surely people go through life as mere ghosts.
Surely they accumulate worthless wealth
without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
62:9 Men are nothing but a mere breath;
human beings are unreliable.
When they are weighed in the scales,
all of them together are lighter than air.
62:10 Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression!
Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery!
If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!
144:4 People
their days like a shadow that disappears.