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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 (6:3) For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness (6:4) Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other (6:5) Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? (6:6) All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled (6:7) For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? (6:8) Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit (6:9) 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 (6:10) Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better? (6:11) 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?
(6:12)
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