a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.

Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.