Ecclesiastes 2:24-26

Expanded Bible

²⁴ ·The best that people can do is [^LThere is nothing better for people than to] eat, drink, and enjoy their ·work [toil]. I saw that even this comes from God, ²⁵ because ·no one [^Lwho…?] can eat or ·enjoy life [or worry] without him. ²⁶ If people please God, God will give them wisdom, knowledge, and ·joy [pleasure]. But ·sinners [or people who offend; ^Coffend God] will get only the work of gathering wealth that they will have to give to the ones who please God. So all their work is useless [1:2], like chasing the wind [3:12–14, 22; 5:18–20; 8:15; 9:7–10; ^Cthe little pleasures are distractions from the meaningless world].