Ecclesiastes 6:8-12

⁸For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

⁹Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁰What is that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it is man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

¹¹For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?

¹²For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?