Ecclesiastes 6
6
1I have noticed that in this world a serious injustice is done. 2God will give someone wealth, honour, and property, yes, everything he wants, but then will not let him enjoy it. Some stranger will enjoy it instead. It is useless, and it's all wrong. 3A person may have a hundred children and live a long time, but no matter how long he lives, if he does not get his share of happiness and does not receive a decent burial, then I say that a baby born dead is better off. 4It does that baby no good to be born; it disappears into darkness, where it is forgotten. 5It never sees the light of day or knows what life is like, but at least it has found rest — 6more so than the man who never enjoys life, though he may live 2,000 years. After all, both of them are going to the same place.
7People do all their work just to get something to eat, but they never have enough. 8How are the wise better off than fools? What good does it do the poor to know how to face life? 9It is useless; it is like chasing the wind. It is better to be satisfied with what you have than to be always wanting something else.
10Everything that happens was already determined long ago, and we all know that you#6.10 and we… you; or and our nature is already known; you. cannot argue with someone who is stronger than you are. 11The longer you argue, the more useless it is, and you are no better off. 12How can anyone know what is best for us in this short, useless life of ours — a life that passes like a shadow? How can we know what will happen in the world after we die?
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Ecclesiastes 6
6
1There#Eccl. 5:13 is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: 2A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, #Job 21:10; Ps. 17:14; 73:7so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; #Luke 12:20yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.
3If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or #2 Kin. 9:35; Is. 14:19, 20; Jer. 22:19indeed he has no burial, I say that #Job 3:16; Ps. 58:8; Eccl. 4:3a stillborn child is better than he— 4for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man, 6even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one #Eccl. 2:14, 15place?
7#Prov. 16:26All the labor of man is for his mouth,
And yet the soul is not satisfied.
8For what more has the wise man than the fool?
What does the poor man have,
Who knows how to walk before the living?
9Better is the #Eccl. 11:9sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire.
This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
10Whatever one is, he has been named #Eccl. 1:9; 3:15already,
For it is known that he is man;
#Job 9:32; Is. 45:9; Jer. 49:19And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.
11Since there are many things that increase vanity,
How is man the better?
12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like #Ps. 102:11; James 4:14a shadow? #Ps. 39:6; Eccl. 3:22Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?
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