Bible, King James Version
Ecclesiastes
Qoh.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?
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