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# Chapter 6
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1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
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2 A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.
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3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he—
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4 for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
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5 Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man,
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6 even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one place?
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7 All the labor of man is for his mouth,
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And yet the soul is not satisfied.
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8 For what more has the wise man than the fool?
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What does the poor man have,
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Who knows how to walk before the living?
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9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire.
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This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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10 Whatever one is, he has been named already,
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For it is known that he is man;
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And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.
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11 Since there are many things that increase vanity,
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How is man the better?
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12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun? |