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Ecclesiastes  


6 : 1 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind:
6 : 2 a manto whomGod gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that helacks nothing of all that he desires, yet Goddoes not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity;it is a grievous evil.
6 : 3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so thatthe days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life'sgood things, and he also has noburial, I say thata stillborn child is better off than he.
6 : 4 For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.
6 : 5 Moreover, it has notseen the sun or known anything, yet it findsrest rather than he.
6 : 6 Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoyno good&emdash;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 manover the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?
6 : 9 Betteris the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also isvanity and a striving after wind.
6 : 10 Whatever has come to be hasalready been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able todispute with one stronger than he.
6 : 11 The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?
6 : 12 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of hisvainlife, which he passes likea shadow? For who can tell man what will beafter him under the sun?