Catholic Public Domain Version
"Even if he were to live for two thousand years, and yet not thoroughly enjoy what is good, does not each one hurry on to the same place? "
— Ecclesiastes 6:6, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”
“yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place? ”
“Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?”
“if he should live a thousand years twice, yet does not enjoy his prosperity. For both of them die!”
“Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?”
“And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?”
“Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”
If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.
For he arrives without a purpose and he continues on into darkness, and his name shall be wiped away, into oblivion.
He has not seen the sun, nor recognized the difference between good and evil.
Even if he were to live for two thousand years, and yet not thoroughly enjoy what is good, does not each one hurry on to the same place?
Every labor of man is for his mouth, but his soul will not be filled.
What do the wise have which is more than the foolish? And what does the pauper have, except to continue on to that place, where there is life?
It is better to see what you desire, than to desire what you cannot know. But this, too, is emptiness and a presumption of spirit.