For all his days {are} sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

{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.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all {things} that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. {to be...: or, to afflict them}

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason {of things}, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness {and} madness: {I applied...: Heb. I and mine heart compassed}

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? {when...: or, how it shall be?}

There is one {alone}, and {there is} not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet {is there} no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither {saith he}, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This {is} also vanity, yea, it {is} a sore travail.

The sleep of a labouring man {is} sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

{Thus} I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: {there is} a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all {things} that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. {to be...: or, to afflict them}

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, {and} apply thine heart to understanding;

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it {seemed} great unto me:

Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask {them} not again.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, {are} in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred {by} all {that is} before them. {I considered...: Heb. I gave, or, set to my heart}