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.
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.
4 A baby born dead is useless. It returns to darkness without even a name.
5 That baby never saw the sun and never knew anything, but it finds more rest than that man.
6 Even if he lives two thousand years, he doesn’t enjoy the good God gives him. Everyone is going to the same place.
7 People work just to feed themselves,but they never seem to get enough to eat.
8 In this way a wise personis no better off than a fool.Then, too, it does a poor person little goodto know how to get along in life.