Ecclesiastes 6:4-12

⁴For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;

⁵moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.

⁶Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

⁷All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

⁸For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

⁹Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

¹⁰That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.

¹¹For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?

¹²For 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?