4. Because that child arrives pointlessly, then passes away in darkness. Darkness covers its name.
5. It hasn’t seen the sun or experienced anything. But it has more peace than those
6. who live a thousand years twice over but don’t enjoy life’s good things. Isn’t everyone heading to the same destination?
7. All the hard work of humans is for the mouth, but the appetite is never full.
8. What advantage do the wise have over the foolish? Or what do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before the living?