Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man, even though standing tall, is total vanity. Selah.

Surely every man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are stirred up in vain. He heaps up the produce, and does not know who shall gather it.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and striving of spirit.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore regard pleasure; and this was vanity.

I sought in my heart to gratify my flesh with wine, while leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might find out what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

I made gardens and orchards for myself, and I planted trees in them, of all kinds of fruit.

I have bought slaves and maids, and had servants born in my house; I also had more livestock, herds and flocks, than all were before me in Jerusalem.

I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and striving of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun.

Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

For what has man from all his labor, and from the striving of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

There is one alone, without a second; indeed, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he does not ask, For whom do I labor and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity; indeed, it is an evil task.

She also rises while it is still night, and prepares food for her household, and portions for her maidservants.

She girds her loins with strength, and makes her arms strong.

And to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you have been taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not satisfied.

I lay down and slept. I awoke, for Jehovah sustained me.

I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for You alone, Jehovah, make me dwell in safety.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

After this I awoke and looked around; and my sleep was sweet to me.

I will make a covenant of peace with them, and remove the evil beasts out of the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the wooded forests.

Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.

And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.