2 Therefore I commended the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.
3 And better than both is he who has never existed, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 And I saw that all the toil and skill of the work bring envy between man and his neighbour. That too is futile and feeding on wind.
5 The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
6 Better is a hand filled with rest than both hands filled with toil and feeding on wind.
7 Then I looked again at futility under the sun:
8 There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.