8 What advantage have the wise over fools?What do the poor gainby knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
9 Better what the eye seesthan the roving of the appetite.This too is meaningless,a chasing after the wind.
10 Whatever exists has already been named,and what humanity is has been known;no one can contendwith someone who is stronger.
11 The more the words,the less the meaning,and how does that profit anyone?
12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?