³ What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?^(A)

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

²³ All hard work brings a profit,
    but mere talk leads only to poverty.

¹¹ Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
    and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;^(A)
    nothing was gained under the sun.^(B)