Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
There is another
evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs
heavily
upon
mankind
:
There is an
evil which
I have seen under the sun, and it is
common
among
men
:
God
gives
a man riches, wealth, and honor
, so that he lacks
nothing his heart
desires;
but
God does
not
allow
him to enjoy
them.
Instead
, a stranger will
enjoy
them.
This is futile
and a
grievous
affliction
.
A man to
whom
God
hath
given
riches, wealth, and honour
, so that he wanteth
nothing for
his soul
of
all
that
he
desireth,
yet
God giveth
him not
power
to eat
thereof
, but
a stranger eateth
it:
this is vanity,
and it
is
an
evil
disease
.
A man may
father
a
hundred children and live for
many years ;
yet
no
matter
how
long
he
lives
, if
he
is
unsatisfied
with
his prosperity
and does
not even
receive
a
proper
burial
, I say that a
stillborn
child
is better off
than he.
If
a man beget
an
hundred children ,
and live many years, so
that
the
days
of
his years
be
many,
and his
soul
be
not filled
with
good
, and
also
that
he
have
no
burial;
I say ,
that an
untimely
birth
is better than he.
For a
stillborn
child
enters
in futility
and departs
in darkness, and his name is
shrouded
in
obscurity
.
For he
cometh
in with
vanity,
and departeth
in darkness, and his name shall
be
covered
with
darkness
.
The
child,
though
neither
seeing
the sun nor
knowing
anything
, has
more rest than that
man,
Moreover
he
hath
not
seen
the sun, nor
known
any
thing:
this
hath
more rest than the
other.
even
if
he lives
a thousand years twice over
but
fails
to
enjoy
his
prosperity.
Do not all go to the
same
place?
Yea,
though
he live
a thousand years twice told,
yet
hath
he
seen
no
good:
do not all go to one
place?
All a
man’s
labor
is for his mouth, yet his
appetite is never
satisfied
.
All the
labour
of
man
is for his mouth, and
yet the
appetite is not
filled
.
What advantage,
then,
has
the wise man
over
the fool? What gain
comes
to
the poor man
who
knows
how
to conduct
himself
before others
?
For
what hath
the wise more
than
the fool? what hath
the poor ,
that
knoweth
to walk
before the
living
?
Better what
the eye
can
see
than the wandering of desire .
This too
is futile
and a
pursuit
of the
wind
.
Better is
the sight
of
the
eyes
than the wandering of the
desire :
this is also
vanity
and vexation
of spirit
.
Whatever
exists
was
named long
ago
, and what
happens
to
a
man
is foreknown;
but
he cannot
contend with one
stronger
than he.
That
which
hath
been
is
named already
, and it
is known
that
it
is
man:
neither
may
he contend with him
that
is
mightier
than he.
For
the
more
words
, the more
futility—and
how
does
that
profit
anyone
?
Seeing
there
be
many
things
that
increase
vanity
, what
is
man
the better
?
For who knows
what is good for a
man during
the few
days in
which
he
passes
through
his fleeting
life like
a shadow? Who can tell a man what will
come
after him under the sun?
For who knoweth
what is good for man in
this
life,
all
the days of
his vain
life which
he
spendeth
as
a shadow? for
who can tell a man what shall
be
after him under the sun?
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