Ecclesiastes 5:15-19
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a sickening evil: exactly as a person is born, so will he die. What then is the advantage for him who labors for the wind?
Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his life he also eats in darkness with great irritation, sickness, and anger.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink, and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.
Ecclesiastes 5:19
Furthermore, as for every person to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also given him the opportunity to enjoy them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.