6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:
6:2 a 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.
6:3 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.
6:4 For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
6:5 moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.
6:6 Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?
6:7 All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.
6:8 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?
6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
6:10 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.
6:11 The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better?
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