As everyone comes, so they depart,
    and what do they gain,
    since they toil for the wind?^(A)

³ What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?^(A)

²⁹ Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind,
    and the fool will be servant to the wise.^(A)

⁷ “They sow the wind
    and reap the whirlwind.^(A)
The stalk has no head;
    it will produce no flour.^(B)
Were it to yield grain,
    foreigners would swallow it up.^(C)

⁸ The priests did not ask,
    ‘Where is the Lord?’
Those who deal with the law did not know me;^(A)
    the leaders^(B) rebelled against me.
The prophets prophesied by Baal,^(C)
    following worthless idols.^(D)

¹⁸ We were with child, we writhed in labor,
    but we gave birth^(A) to wind.
We have not brought salvation^(B) to the earth,
    and the people of the world have not come to life.^(C)

wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,