Ecclesiastes 6

1 Also another yuel is, which Y siy vndur the sunne; and certis it is oft vsid anentis men.

there distress: evil which to see: see underneath: under [the] sun and many he/she/it upon [the] man

2 A man is, to whom God yaf richessis, and catel, and onour; and no thing failith to his soule of alle thingis which he desirith; and God yyueth not power to hym, that he ete therof, but a straunge man shal deuoure it. This is vanyte, and a greet wretchidnesse.

man: anyone which to give: give to/for him [the] God riches and wealth and glory and nothing he lacking to/for soul: myself his from all which to desire and not to domineer him [the] God to/for to eat from him for man foreign to eat him this vanity and sickness bad: harmful he/she/it

3 If a man gendrith an hundrid fre sones, and lyueth many yeris, and hath many daies of age, and his soule vsith not the goodis of his catel, and wantith biriyng; Y pronounce of this man, that a deed borun child is betere than he.

if to beget man: anyone hundred and year many to live and many which/that to be day year his and soul: appetite his not to satisfy from [the] welfare and also tomb not to be to/for him to say pleasant from him [the] miscarriage

4 For he cometh in veyn, and goith to derknessis; and his name schal be don a wei bi foryetyng.

for in/on/with vanity to come (in): come and in/on/with darkness to go: went and in/on/with darkness name his to cover

5 He siy not the sunne, nether knew dyuersyte of good and of yuel;

also sun not to see: see and not to know quietness to/for this from this

6 also thouy he lyueth twei thousynde yeeris, and vsith not goodis; whether alle thingis hasten not to o place?

and except to live thousand year beat and welfare not to see: enjoy not to(wards) place one [the] all to go: went

7 Al the trauel of a man is in his mouth, but the soule of hym schal not be fillid with goodis.

all trouble [the] man to/for lip his and also [the] soul: appetite not to fill

8 What hath a wijs man more than a fool? and what hath a pore man, no but that he go thidur, where is lijf?

for what? advantage to/for wise from [the] fool what? to/for afflicted to know to/for to go: walk before [the] alive

9 It is betere to se that, that thou coueitist, than to desire that, that thou knowist not; but also this is vanyte, and presumpcioun of spirit.

pleasant appearance eye from to go: walk soul: appetite also this vanity and longing spirit: breath

10 The name of hym that schal come, is clepid now, and it is knowun, that he is a man, and he mai not stryue in doom ayens a strongere than hym silf.

what? which/that to be already to call: call by name his and to know which he/she/it man and not be able to/for to judge with (which/that mighty *Q(K)*) from him

11 Wordis ben ful manye, and han myche vanyte in dispuytinge.

for there word to multiply to multiply vanity what? advantage to/for man

12 What nede is it to a man to seke grettere thingis than hym silf; sithen he knowith not, what schal bifalle to hym in his lijf, in the noumbre of daies of his pilgrimage, and in the tyme that passith as schadowe? ether who may schewe to hym, what thing vndur sunne schal come aftir hym?

for who? to know what? pleasant to/for man in/on/with life number day life vanity his and to make: do them like/as shadow which who? to tell to/for man what? to be after him underneath: under [the] sun