Verse
WEB
World English Bible
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
There is an
evil which
I have seen under the sun, and it is
heavy
on
men
:
There is another
evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs
heavily
upon
mankind
:
a
man
to
whom
God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for
his soul
of
all
that
he
desires ,
yet
God gives
him no
power
to eat
of
it
, but
an
alien
eats
it
. This is vanity,
and it
is
an
evil
disease
.
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
.
If
a man fathers
a hundred children ,
and lives
many years ,
so
that
the
days
of
his
years
are
many
, but
his
soul
is not
filled
with good,
and moreover
he
has
no
burial ;
I say ,
that an
untimely
birth
is better than he :
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 .
for it
comes
in vanity,
and departs in darkness, and its
name is covered
with
darkness
.
For a
stillborn
child
enters
in futility
and departs in darkness, and his
name is shrouded
in
obscurity
.
Moreover
it
has
not
seen
the sun nor known
it.
This
has rest rather
than the
other.
The child,
though
neither
seeing
the
sun nor knowing
anything,
has more
rest than that
man,
Yes,
though
he live
a thousand years twice told,
and
yet
fails to enjoy good,
don't
all go to one
place?
even
if
he lives
a thousand years twice over
but
fails to enjoy his
prosperity.
Do
not
all go to the
same
place?
All the
labor of
man
is for his mouth, and
yet the
appetite is not
filled
.
All a
man’s
labor is for his mouth, yet his
appetite is never
satisfied
.
For
what advantage has the wise more
than
the fool? What has
the poor man ,
that
knows how to walk
before the
living
?
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
?
Better is
the
sight
of
the eyes
than the wandering of the
desire. This also
is vanity
and a chasing
after
wind.
Better what
the eye
can
see
than the wandering of desire. This too
is futile
and a pursuit
of
the
wind.
Whatever has
been,
its
name
was given
long ago ;
and it
is
known
what man is; neither
can
he contend with him
who
is
mightier
than he.
Whatever exists
was named
long ago ,
and what happens
to
a
man is foreknown
; but
he cannot
contend with one
stronger
than he.
For there
are
many
words that
create
vanity.
What
does that profit man
?
For the
more
words ,
the
more
futility—and
how
does that profit anyone
?
For who knows what is good for man in
life,
all
the days of
his
vain
life
which he spends
like a shadow? For
who can tell a man what will be
after him under the sun?
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?
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