6:1 There is a misery that I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon humanity.
6:2 God gives a man riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to eat from it—instead a foreigner will eat it. This is fruitless—an agonizing illness.
6:3 Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.
6:4 Even though it comes in futility and departs into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
6:5 though it has never seen or experienced the sun, it has more rest than the other.
6:6 Even if the other man were to live a thousand years twice and never enjoy good things—do not all go to the same place?
6:7 All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.
6:8 So what advantage has the wise over the fool? What does the pauper gain by knowing how to walk before the living?
6:9 Better is what the eyes see than the pursuit of the soul’s desires. This too is fleeting and striving after wind.
6:10 Whatever exists has already been named, and it has been made known what humanity is. But man cannot contend with the One who is mightier than he.
6:11 When there are many words, futility increases! How does that benefit anyone?
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