“For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?”
The rhetorical question about what profit or advantage accrues from laboring under the sun, given that all labor yields only to futility and heartache, returns to the foundational inquiry of 1:3. Yet now the question has been answered through extended investigation: there is no profit, no lasting advantage, no way to escape the vanity that encompasses all human striving. The accumulation of hardship alongside the absence of gain creates a particularly devastating indictment of worldly endeavor.
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