1 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:I saw the tears of the oppressed –and they have no comforter;power was on the side of their oppressors –and they have no comforter.
2 And I declared that the dead,who had already died,are happier than the living,who are still alive.
3 But better than bothis the one who has never been born,who has not seen the evilthat is done under the sun.
4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
5 Fools fold their handsand ruin themselves.