6:1 I have seen something else wrong here on earth that causes serious problems for people.
6:2 God gives great wealth, riches, and honor to some people; they have everything they want. But God does not let them enjoy such things; a stranger enjoys them instead. This is useless and very wrong.
6:3 A man might have a hundred children and live a long time, but what good is it if he can’t enjoy the good God gives him or have a proper burial? I say a baby born dead is better off than he is.
6:4 A baby born dead is useless. It returns to darkness without even a name.
6:5 That baby never saw the sun and never knew anything, but it finds more rest than that man.
6:6 Even if he lives two thousand years, he doesn’t enjoy the good God gives him. Everyone is going to the same place.
6:7 People work just to feed themselves, but they never seem to get enough to eat.
6:8 In this way a wise person is no better off than a fool. Then, too, it does a poor person little good to know how to get along in life.
6:9 It is better to see what you have than to want more. Wanting more is useless— like chasing the wind.
6:10 Whatever happens was planned long ago. Everyone knows what people are like. No one can argue with God, who is stronger than anyone.
6:11 The more you say, the more useless it is. What good does it do?
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