Ecclesiastes 6 GNV
Summary: The Preacher names a particular evil: a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor so that he lacks nothing, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead — this he calls vanity and a sore affliction. He argues that even a man who fathers a hundred children and lives many years is worse off than a stillborn child if his soul is not satisfied with good things and he receives no proper burial. All man's toil is for his mouth, yet appetite is never filled, and the wise fare no better than the fool; the chapter ends asking who can know what is good for a person during the few, fleeting days of a vain life.
1There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:
2A 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.
3If 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.
4For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
5Also he hath not seene ye sunne, nor knowen it: therefore this hath more rest then the other.
6And if he had liued a thousand yeeres twise tolde, and had seene no good, shall not all goe to one place?
7All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.
8For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?
9The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.
10What 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.
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