⁷ Everyone’s toil is for their mouth,
    yet their appetite is never satisfied.^(A)
8 What advantage have the wise over fools?^(B)
What do the poor gain
    by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
⁹ Better what the eye sees
    than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
    a chasing after the wind.^(C)

¹⁰ Whatever exists has already been named,^(D)
    and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
    with someone who is stronger.
¹¹ The more the words,
    the less the meaning,
    and how does that profit anyone?