Solomon answers: “I, even I, turned toward all the works of mine that my hands had done and toward the hard work that I had worked hard to accomplish, and, look! everything was vanity and a striving after wind. ” ​ — Ecclesiastes 2: 3 - 11.
Saalomon vastas: „Kui ma vaatlesin kõiki oma tegusid, mis mu käed olid teinud, ja vaeva, mida ma neid tehes olin näinud, vaata, siis oli see kõik tühi töö ja vaimu närimine! ”.