Labor

And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?
Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.
For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?
All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?

Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all.
Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end:
From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:
From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,
And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changeth his knowledge.
A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch.
He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that there is no fear.
Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold more.