 1 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun and it is great. 2 God has given some riches, wealth, and honor, lacking nothing of all that may be desired, yet God does not give ability+ to eat of it, but a stranger eats it. This is vanity and an evil disease. 3 If a man fathers 100 and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good and also is for him no burial, I say, a miscarriage is better than he. 4 For he comes in with vanity and goes out in darkness and his name will be covered with darkness. 5 He has not seen the sun nor known anything. This one has more rest than the other. 6 Yes, though he might live twice a thousand years, yet he has seen no good. Do not all go to one place? 7 All the labor of mankind is for the mouth and yet the appetite is not filled. 8 For what has the wise more than the fool? What gain has the poor who knows how 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 What has been is named already and it is known that he is man. He is not able to contend with Him who is mightier than he. 11 For there are many things that increase vanity and what is man the better? 12 For who knows what is good for anyone in this life? All the days of a vain life that one spends as a shadow? Who can tell what shall be after, under the sun?
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