Ecclesiastes 6:2-11

²a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, and nothing is wanting to him of all which he desireth, yet God giveth him not to taste thereof; but a stranger enjoyeth it. This is vanity, yea, a grievous evil.

³Though a man have a hundred children, and live many years, and though the days of his years be many, if his soul be not satisfied with good, and he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he.

⁴This, indeed, cometh in nothingness, and goeth down into darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;

⁵it hath not seen the sun, nor known it; yet hath it rest rather than the other.

⁶Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and see no good, — do not all go to one place?

⁷All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his desires are not satisfied.

⁸For what advantage hath the wise man over the fool? What advantage hath the poor, who knoweth how to walk before the living?

⁹Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity, and striving after wind.

¹⁰That which is was long ago called by name; and it was known that he is a man, and that he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.

¹¹Seeing there are many things which increase vanity, what advantage hath man from them?