Ecclesiastes 3:9

"What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?"

That is, what true or lasting profit? For all the events in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 are often momentary or temporary. Once again, we return to the original question of the book (Ecclesiastes 1:3) Since man is subject to many circumstances which he has no real control over, circumstances which can completely erase. whole life's work (such as war and death), that certainly strips man of any security in this life.