ECCLESIASTES 6:5-12

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

⁶yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy 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 more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth to walk before the living?

⁹Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

¹⁰Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago, and it is known that it is man: neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.

¹¹Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

¹²For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?