Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 4:4; Ecclesiastes 6:2; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Ecclesiastes 7:5; Ecclesiastes 9:15

Ecclesiastes 1:8

8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

3 A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

5 It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person than to listen to the song of fools.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

15 Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.