6 There is an evil which I saw under the Sun, and it is much among men:

² a man to whom God has given riches and treasures and honor, and he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires. But God does not give him power to eat of them, but a strange man eats them up. This is vanity. And this is an evil sickness.

³ If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, and the days of his years are multiplied, and his soul is not satisfied with good things, and he is not buried, I say that a miscarriage is better than he.

⁴ For he comes into vanity and goes into darkness. And his name shall be covered with darkness.

⁵ Also he has neither seen the Sun nor known it. This has more rest than the other,

⁶ even if he had lived a thousand years, twice, and still had seen no good. Shall not all go to one place?

⁷ All the labor of man is for his mouth. Yet the soul is not filled.

⁸ For what more has the wise man than the fool? What has the poor who knows how to walk before the living?

⁹ The sight of the eye is better than to walk in lusts. This also is vanity and grasping at the wind.

¹⁰ Whatever has been is now named. And it is known that it is man. And he cannot strive with him who is stronger than he.