⁹ I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem^(A) before me.^(B) In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

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.