Ec 2:17-26 (King James)

   ¹⁷ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. ¹⁸ Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. ¹⁹ And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. ²⁰ Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. ²¹ For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. ²² For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? ²³ For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. ²⁴ There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. ²⁵ For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? ²⁶ For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ec 2:17-26 (Vulgate)

   ¹⁷ Et idcirco tæduit me vitæ meæ,
videntem mala universa esse sub sole,
et cuncta vanitatem et afflictionem spiritus.]
   ¹⁸ [Rursus detestatus sum omnem industriam meam,
qua sub sole studiosissime laboravi,
habiturus hæredem post me,
   ¹⁹ quem ignoro utrum sapiens an stultus futurus sit,
et dominabitur in laboribus meis,
quibus desudavi et sollicitus fui :
et est quidquam tam vanum ?
   ²⁰ Unde cessavi,
renuntiavitque cor meum ultra laborare sub sole.
   ²¹ Nam cum alius laboret in sapientia,
et doctrina, et sollicitudine,
homini otioso quæsita dimittit ;
et hoc ergo vanitas et magnum malum.
   ²² Quid enim proderit homini de universo labore suo,
et afflictione spiritus,
qua sub sole cruciatus est ?
   ²³ Cuncti dies ejus doloribus et ærumnis pleni sunt,
nec per noctem mente requiescit.
Et hoc nonne vanitas est ?
   ²⁴ Nonne melius est comedere et bibere,
et ostendere animæ suæ bona de laboribus suis ?
et hoc de manu Dei est.
   ²⁵ Quis ita devorabit et deliciis affluet ut ego ?
   ²⁶ Homini bono in conspectu suo
dedit Deus sapientiam, et scientiam, et lætitiam ;
peccatori autem dedit afflictionem et curam superfluam,
ut addat, et congreget,
et tradat ei qui placuit Deo ;
sed et hoc vanitas est, et cassa sollicitudo mentis.]