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Ecclesiastes 6

6 There is a misfortune that I have seen under the sun and it is great on humanity: 2 A person who the God gives to him wealth and possessions and honor, so he is not lacking for his soul from anything that he desires, but the God does not enable him to eat from it; instead, a nonnative person will eat it—this is vapor, and it is a sickening misfortune. 3 If a man should father a hundred children, and many years should he live—and many that the days of his years may be—but if his soul is not satisfied from the good thing (and also a burial place is not for him), I say, “Better than him is the stillborn child.” 4 For, in vapor it came, and in the darkness it will go, and in the darkness its name will be covered. 5 Even the sun it did not see, nor did it know. More rest belongs to this one than this one. 6 And if he lived a thousand years twice, but a good thing he did not see—are not both going to one place?

7 All the toil of humanity is for his mouth,

and yet the soul is not filled.

8 For what advantage belongs to the wise more than the fool? What advantage belongs to the poor person who knows how to walk before the living?

9 Better is a sight of the eyes

than the walking of the soul.

Also this is vapor and pursuit of wind.

10 Whatever that is, already its name has been called, and it is known what a person is—and he is not able to contend with he who is more powerful than him. 11 When there are many words that are increasingly vaporous, what advantage belongs to humanity? 12 For who is knowing what is good for humanity in life during the number of the days of his vaporous life? And he makes them like the shadow. For who will declare to humanity what will be after him under the sun?

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