6:1  There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:

6:2  a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.

6:3  If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.

6:4  For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

6:5  moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.

6:6  Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place?

6:7  All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.

6:8  For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?

6:9  Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

6:10  Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.

6:11  The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better?

6:12  For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a