| 9 | What gain has the worker from his toil? |
| 10 | I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. |
| 11 | He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. |
| 12 | I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; |
| 13 | also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil. |
| 14 | I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him. |