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1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men:
2 A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.
3 If a man beget a 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 comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name will be covered with darkness.
5 Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this has more rest than the other.
6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet has 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 has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows 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 has 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 knows what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?