| 1 | What does the worker gain from his toil? | |
| 2 | Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. | |
| 3 | Then man goes out to his work, to his labor until evening. | |
| 4 | Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. | |
| 5 | Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. |
