Ecclesiastes

Chapter 6

New King James Version

1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men: 2A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil affliction. 3If a man begets a hundred [children] and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say [that] a stillborn child [is] better than he -- 4for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5Though it has not seen the sun or known [anything,] this has more rest than that man, 6even if he lives a thousand years twice -- but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one place? 7All the labor of man [is] for his mouth, And yet the soul is not satisfied. 8For what more has the wise [man] than the fool? What does the poor man have, Who knows [how] to walk before the living? 9Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This also [is] vanity and grasping for the wind. 10Whatever one is, he has been named already, For it is known that he [is] man; And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he. 11Since there are many things that increase vanity, How [is] man the better? 12For who knows what [is] good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?

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