12 Workers may or may not have enough to eat, but at least they can get a good night's sleep. The rich, however, have so much that they stay awake worrying.
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 bad 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 labor, trying to catch the wind, and what do we get?
17 We get to live our lives in darkness and grief, worried, angry, and sick.
18 Here is what I have found out: the best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for during the short life that God has given us; this is our fate.