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¹Also another evil there is, which I saw under the sun; and certainly it is oft used with men.

²A man is, to whom God gave riches, and chattel or substance, and honour; and nothing faileth to his soul of all things which he desireth; and God giveth not power to him, that he eat thereof, but a strange man shall devour it. This is vanity, and a great wretchedness.

³If a man engendereth an hundred free sons, and hath many days of age, and his soul useth not the goods of his chattel or substance, and wanteth burying; I pronounce of this man, that a dead-born child is better than he.

⁴For he cometh in vain, and goeth to darknesses; and his name shall be done away by forgetting.

⁵He saw not the sun, neither knew the diversity of good and of evil;

⁶also though he live two thousand years, and useth not the goods; whether all things hasten not to one place?

⁷All the travail of a man is in his mouth, but the soul of him shall not be ful filled with goods.

⁸What hath a wise man more than a fool? and what hath a poor man, but that he go thither, where is life?

⁹It is better to see that, that thou covetest, than to desire that, that thou knowest not; but also this is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

¹⁰The name of him that shall come, is called now, and it is known, that he is a man, and he may not strive in doom against a stronger than himself.

¹¹Words be full many, and have much vanity in disputing. What need is it to a man to seek greater things than himself;

¹²since he knoweth not, what shall befall to him in his life, in the number of days of his pilgrimage, and in the time that passeth as shadow? either who may show to him, what thing under the sun shall come after him?