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 has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he—
4 for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered up.
5 Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.
6 Though the man may live a thousand years, twice over, yet he does not see the good things. Does not everyone go to the same place?
7 All the labor of man is for his mouth,yet his appetite is not satisfied.
8 For what benefit is there for the wiseover the fool?And what more does the poor man knowwho walks before others?
9 Better to be content with the sight of eyesthan to have a wandering appetite.This is vanityand like chasing the wind.