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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 hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that 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 it
is an evil disease.
3 If a man beget an 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 cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known
any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice
told, yet hath 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 hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?