⁸ Taste and see that the Lord is good;^(A)
    blessed is the one who takes refuge^(B) in him.

¹¹ As goods increase,
    so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
    except to feast their eyes on them?

¹² The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
    whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
    permits them no sleep.^(A)

wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
¹⁴     or wealth lost through some misfortune,
so that when they have children
    there is nothing left for them to inherit.
¹⁵ Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
    and as everyone comes, so they depart.^(C)
They take nothing from their toil^(D)
    that they can carry in their hands.^(E)

As everyone comes, so they depart,
    and what do they gain,
    since they toil for the wind?^(F)

⁶ A voice says, “Cry out.”
    And I said, “What shall I cry?”

“All people are like grass,^(A)
    and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
⁷ The grass withers^(B) and the flowers fall,
    because the breath^(C) of the Lord blows^(D) on them.
    Surely the people are grass.
⁸ The grass withers and the flowers^(E) fall,
    but the word^(F) of our God endures^(G) forever.^(H)”

¹³ Has not the Lord Almighty determined
    that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,^(A)
    that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?^(B)