3. A man might have a hundred children and live a long time, but what good is it if he can’t enjoy the good God gives him or have a proper burial? I say a baby born dead is better off than he is.
4. A baby born dead is useless. It returns to darkness without even a name.
5. That baby never saw the sun and never knew anything, but it finds more rest than that man.
6. Even if he lives two thousand years, he doesn’t enjoy the good God gives him. Everyone is going to the same place.
7. People work just to feed themselves,but they never seem to get enough to eat.
8. In this way a wise personis no better off than a fool.Then, too, it does a poor person little goodto know how to get along in life.