# Ecclesiastes 6

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind: [2] God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction. [3] A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. [4] For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity. [5] The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man, [6] even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place? [7] All a man’s labor is for his mouth,
yet his appetite is never satisfied. [8] What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others? [9] Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind. [10] Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he. [11] For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone? [12] For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

## Each verse

- Ecclesiastes 6:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/1
- Ecclesiastes 6:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/2
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/3
- Ecclesiastes 6:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/4
- Ecclesiastes 6:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/5
- Ecclesiastes 6:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/6
- Ecclesiastes 6:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/7
- Ecclesiastes 6:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/8
- Ecclesiastes 6:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/9
- Ecclesiastes 6:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/10
- Ecclesiastes 6:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/11
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ecclesiastes/6/12