6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
6:2 A man to whom Elohim (אלהים) has given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet Elohim (אלהים) gives him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eats it: this is hevel (vanity), and it is an evil disease.
6:3 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 satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
6:4 For it comes in hevel (vanity) and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.
6:5 Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.
6:6 Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place?
6:7 All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.
6:8 For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?
6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This also is hevel (vanity) and grasping for the wind.
6:10 Whatever one is, he has been named already, For it is known that he is man; And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.
6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase hevel (vanity), what is man the better?
6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?