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Chapter 6 |
| 1 |
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among
men: |
| 2 | A man to whom God
hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul
of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a
stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. |
| 3 | If a man beget an hundred children, and
live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not
filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely
birth is better than he. |
| 4 |
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall
be covered with darkness. |
| 5 |
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest
than the other. |
| 6 | Yea,
though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not
all go to one place? |
| 7 |
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. |
| 8 | For what hath the wise more
than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? |
| 9 | Better is the sight of the
eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of
spirit. |
| 10 | That which
hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he
contend with him that is mightier than he. |
| 11 | Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what
is man the better? |
| 12 |
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain
life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after
him under the sun? |
