1. Here is another misfortune that I have seen under the sun, and it is prevalent among humankind.
2. God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it—instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This is vanity—indeed, it is a grievous ill!
3. Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with his prosperity and he does not receive a proper burial, I deem the stillborn better than him.
4. For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
5. He has neither seen nor known the sun, yet he has more rest than him.
6. Even if a man lives a thousand years twice, if he does not enjoy prosperity, both suffer the same fate!