עָמֵל

She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

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.

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.