Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 NASB20 - Bible AI

¹There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is widespread [75]among mankind:

²a person to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God has not given him the opportunity to [76]enjoy these things, but a foreigner [77]enjoys them. This is futility and a severe affliction.

³If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many [78]they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

⁴for a miscarriage comes in futility and goes into darkness; and its name is covered in darkness.

⁵It has not even seen the sun nor does it know it; yet [79]it is better off than that man.

⁶Even if the man lives a thousand years twice, but does not see good things—do not all go to one and the same place?”

⁷All a person’s labor is for his mouth, and yet [80]his appetite is not [81]satisfied.

⁸For what advantage does the wise person have over the fool? What does the poor person have, knowing how to walk before the living?

⁹What the eyes see is better than what the soul [82]desires. This too is futility and striving after wind.

¹⁰Whatever exists has already been named, and it is known what man is; for he cannot dispute with the [83]one who is mightier than he is.

¹¹For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a person?

¹²For who knows what is good for a person during his lifetime, during the few [84]years of his futile life? He will [85]spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a person what will happen after him under the sun?