6:1   I have seen an evil under the sun and it prevails among men--

6:2  a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner enjoys them. This seems vain and a severe affliction.

6:3  If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many he may have, but his soul takes no satisfaction with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, "Better the miscarriage than he,

6:4   for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name will go into obscurity.

6:5   "It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; it fares better off than he.

6:6   "Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things-- do not all go to one place?"

6:7   All a man's labor he does for his mouth and yet he does not satisfy his appetite .

6:8  For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living?

6:9  What the eyes see proves better than what the soul desires This too seems futile and a striving after wind.

6:10  Whatever exists has already received a name, and we knows what man does; for he cannot dispute with him who has more strength than he has.

6:11  For many words increase futility. What advantage do they have to a man?

6:12  For who knows what seems good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will take place after him under the sun?