Ecclesiastes 2:21-26

New International Version

²¹ For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. ²² What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?^{(A) 23} All their days their work is grief and pain;^(B) even at night their minds do not rest.^(C) This too is meaningless.

²⁴ A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink^(D) and find satisfaction in their own toil.^(E) This too, I see, is from the hand of God,^{(F) 25} for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?^{(G) 26} To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom,^(H) knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth^(I) to hand it over to the one who pleases God.^(J) This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.