⁹ Better ^(A)is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is ^(B)vanity and a striving after wind.

¹⁴ I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is ^(A)vanity^[a] and a striving after wind.^[b]

^9 (A)Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. ^(B)Walk in the ways of your heart and ^(C)the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things ^(D)God will bring you into judgment.

² a man ^(A)to whom ^(B)God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he ^(C)lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God ^(D)does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity;^[a] it is a grievous evil.

¹⁸ Behold, what I have seen to be ^(A)good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment^[a] in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his ^(B)lot.

⁴ Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is ^(A)vanity^[a] and a striving after wind.

¹² I perceived that there is ^(A)nothing better for them than to be joyful and to ^(B)do good as long as they live; ¹³ also ^(C)that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is ^(D)God's gift to man.

²² What has a man from ^(A)all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? ²³ For ^(B)all his days are full of sorrow, and his ^(C)work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.

^24 (D)There is nothing better for a person than that he should ^(E)eat and drink and find enjoyment^[a] in his toil. This also, I saw, is ^(F)from the hand of God,

¹¹ Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was ^(A)vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing ^(B)to be gained under the sun.