Ecclesiastes 6:3-12 ▼

3 (6:2) If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he.

4 (6:3) For he commeth to naught, & spendeth his tyme in darknesse, and his name is forgotten.

5 (6:4) Moreouer he seeth not the sunne, and knoweth not of it: and yet hath he more rest then the other.

6 (6:5) Yea, though he lyued two thousande yeres, yet hath he no good lyfe: Come not all to one place?

7 (6:6) All the labour that a man taketh, is for him selfe, and yet his desire is neuer fylled after his mynde.

8 (6:7) For what hath the wise more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore that he knoweth to walke with fooles before the lyuyng?

9 (6:8) The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde.

10 (6:9) The thyng that hath ben, is named alredy, and knowen that it is euen man him selfe: neither may he go to lawe with him that is mightier then he.

11 (6:10) Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?

12 (6:11) For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?