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I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind:
The Futility of Life
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men:
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men:
God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.
one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.
A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.
It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded.
For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;
Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man —
moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.
even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
Everyone’s toil is for their mouth,
yet their appetite is never satisfied.
yet their appetite is never satisfied.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
What advantage have the wise over fools?
What do the poor gain
by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
What do the poor gain
by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Better what the eye sees
than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
a chasing after the wind.
than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
a chasing after the wind.
Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Whatever exists has already been named,
and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
with someone who is stronger.
and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
with someone who is stronger.
That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.
The more the words,
the less the meaning,
and how does that profit anyone?
the less the meaning,
and how does that profit anyone?
For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?
For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?