13 Here is a terrible thing that I have seen in this world: people save up their money for a time when they may need it,
14 and then lose it all in some unlucky deal and end up with nothing left to pass on to their children.
15 We leave this world just as we entered it — with nothing. In spite of all our work there is nothing we can take with us.
16 It isn't right! We go just as we came. We labour, trying to catch the wind, and what do we get?
17 We have to live our lives in darkness and grief, worried, angry, and sick.
18 This is what I have found out: the best thing anyone can do is to eat and drink and enjoy what he has worked for during the short life that God has given him; this is man's fate.
19 If God gives a man wealth and property and lets him enjoy them, he should be grateful and enjoy what he has worked for. It is a gift from God.