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Ecclesiastes 6 New King James Version (NKJV)

Wealth Is Not the Goal of Life

6 There^(A) is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: ²A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, ^(B)so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; ^(C)yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil ^[a]affliction.

³If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or ^(D)indeed he has no burial, I say that ^(E)a ^[b]stillborn child is better than he— ⁴for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. ⁵Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man, ⁶even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one ^(F)place?

⁷^(G)All the labor of man is for his mouth,
And yet the soul is not satisfied.
⁸For what more has the wise man than the fool?
What does the poor man have,
Who knows how to walk before the living?
⁹Better is ^[c]the ^(H)sight of the eyes than the wandering of ^[d]desire.
This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

¹⁰Whatever one is, he has been named ^(I)already,
For it is known that he is man;
^(J)And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.
¹¹Since there are many things that increase vanity,
How is man the better?

¹²For who knows what is good for man in life, ^[e]all the days of his ^[f]vain life which he passes like ^(K)a shadow? ^(L)Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?

New King James Version (NKJV)