| 6 | Ecclesiastes | ||
| 1 | There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men: | ||
| 2 | a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honour, 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. | ||
| 3 | If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he. | ||
| 4 | For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered; | ||
| 5 | moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he. | ||
| 6 | Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good - do not all go to the one place? | ||
| 7 | All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. | ||
| 8 | For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? | ||
| 9 | Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind. | ||
| 10 | Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he. | ||
| 11 | The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better? | ||
| 12 | For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun? | ||
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