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All that men do beneath the sun I marked, and found it was but frustration and lost labour, all of it; (Ecclesiastes 1, 14)
And therewith I applied my mind to a new study; what meant wisdom and learning, what meant ignorance and folly? And I found that this too was labour lost; (Ecclesiastes 1, 17)
Next, I thought to give the rein to my desires, and enjoy pleasure, until I found that this, too, was labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 2, 1)
And now, when I looked round at all I had done, all that ungrateful drudgery, nothing I found there but frustration and labour lost, so fugitive is all we cherish, here under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2, 11)
Why then (I said to myself), if fool and I must come to the same end at last, was not I the fool, that toiled to achieve wisdom more than he? So my thoughts ran, and I found labour lost, here too. (Ecclesiastes 2, 15)
Thus I became weary of life itself; so worthless it seemed to me, all that man does beneath the sun, frustration all of it, and labour lost. And I, beneath that same sun, what fond labours I had spent! (Ecclesiastes 2, 17)
Tell me, how is a man the richer for all that toil of his, all that lost labour of his, here under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 2, 22)
Who wins God’s favour, has wisdom and skill for his reward, and pleasure too; it is the sinner that is doomed to hardship and to thankless care, hoarding and scraping, and all to enrich some heir God loves better! For him frustration, for him the labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 2, 26)
I thought, too, of human toil and striving; how much it owed to man’s rivalry with his fellows! All was frustration and lost labour here. (Ecclesiastes 4, 4)
Better a handful (says he) quietly come by, than a whole armful that is all striving and labour lost.✻ (Ecclesiastes 4, 6)
Here is one that works alone, partner nor son nor brother to aid him, yet still works on, never content with his bright hoard, never asking, as he toils and stints himself, who shall gain by it. Frustration and lost labour, here too. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)
The old king, that had an immemorial line of ancestors;✻ and now posterity shall take no pride in him! All is frustration, and labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 4, 16)
