Ecclesiastes 6
1 Here was an evil, I had seen under the sun, —and it is, common, among men:
There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:
2 A man to whom God giveth riches and gains and honour, so that nothing doth he lack for his soul—of all that he craveth, and yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but, a man unknown, eateth it, —this, was vanity, and, an incurable evil, it was.
A man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that it desireth: but God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a strange man shall eate it vp: this is vanitie, and this is an euill sicknesse.
3 Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!
If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, and his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.
4 For, in vain, it came in, and, in darkness, it departeth, —and, with darkness, its name, is covered:
For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
5 even the sun, it never saw, nor aught did it know, —more quietness, hath this than the other.
Also he hath not seene ye sunne, nor knowen it: therefore this hath more rest then the other.
6 Even though one hath lived a thousand years twice told, yet, good, hath he not seen, —is it not, unto one place, that, all, are going?
And if he had liued a thousand yeeres twise tolde, and had seene no good, shall not all goe to one place?
7 All the toil of man, is for his mouth, —though, even the desire, is not satisfied!
All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.
8 For what profit hath the wise man, over the dullard? What can, the poor man, know—so as to walk before the living?
For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?
9 Better what the eyes behold, than the wandering of desire, —even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.
The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.
10 Whatsoever one may be, long ago, was he called by his name, and it is known that it is—Son of Earth, —he cannot, therefore, contend with one stronger than he.
What is that that hath bene? the name thereof is nowe named: and it is knowen that it is man: and he cannot striue with him that is stronger then he.
11 Seeing there are things in abundance which make vanity abound, what profit hath man?
Surely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?
12 For who knoweth what is good for a man throughout his life, for the number of the days of his life of vanity, seeing he will make them, like a shadow, —for who can tell a man, what shall be after him, under the sun?
For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?
