Old Testament · Poetry and wisdom

Ecclesiastes chapter 6

There is a I’ve seen , and it weighs heavy on people:God gives someone , possessions, and — everything they could want — but then God doesn’t let them enjoy any of it. A stranger ends up consuming it all. This is , and a .Say someone fathers a hundred children and lives for many years — no matter how long their days — if their is never filled with good things, and they don’t even get a proper , I say a is better off than they are.For it arrives in and departs into , and its name is covered in .It never saw or knew anything, yet it has more than that person.Even if someone lived two thousand years but never experienced anything — doesn’t everyone end up in ?All of a person’s is for their , yet their is never satisfied.What does a wise person have over a ? What does a poor person gain by knowing how to ?Better than the . This too is — like .Whatever exists has already been , and what is has been known from the start. No one can argue with .The more there are, the more there is. How does that help anyone?Who knows what is for a person during the few days of their , which they pass through like a ? Who can tell anyone what will happen after they’re gone?