Life's Labors Lost

From both theory and painful experience, King Solomon had come to know the reality that the pursuit of all that the world has to offer leads to emptiness. He observed that it was like laboring for the wind. His counsel was that every person should live in the light of the approaching day of final accounting and to rejoice in that which God has given, but not to make any material thing the object of life. Labors spent for those things will be lost at the last.