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Ecclesiastes

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Chapter 6

¹There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: ²a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a sore affliction. ³If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with good, and he does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. ⁴For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. ⁵Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds more rest than he. ⁶Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place? ⁷All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. ⁸For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man gain by knowing how to walk before the living? ⁹Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind. ¹⁰Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to contend with one stronger than he. ¹¹The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man? ¹²For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life that he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?