¹¹ When I considered all that I had accomplished^[a] and what I had laboured to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind.^[b],^(A) There was nothing to be gained under the sun.^(B)

²² For what does a person get with all his work and all his efforts^(A) that he labours at under the sun?

⁹ What does the worker gain from his struggles?^(A)

¹⁶ This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain^(A) who struggles for the wind?^(B)