ll man’s efforts are for his mouth,
yet his appetite is never satisfied.

What advantage has a wise man over a fool?

What does a poor man gain by knowing
how to conduct himself before others?

Better what the eye sees
than the roving of the appetite.

This too is meaningless,
a chasing after the wind.

Whatever exists has already been named,
and what man is has been known;

no man can contend
with one who is stronger than he.

The more the words,
the less the meaning,
and how does that profit anyone?

For who knows what is good for a man in life,
during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?

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