²² For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

³ What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

² It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

⁷ Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

⁸ And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

³⁴ Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

⁶ Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

⁹ What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

²⁶ For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?