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• suppose someone has received from God riches, property, honours -- nothing at all left to wish for; but God does not give the chance to enjoy them, and some stranger enjoys them. This is futile, and grievous suffering too. (Ecclesiastes 6, 2)

• Or take someone who has had a hundred children and lived for many years, and, having reached old age, has never enjoyed the good things of life and has not even got a tomb; it seems to me, a still-born child is happier. (Ecclesiastes 6, 3)

• It has never so much as seen or known the sun; all the same, it will rest more easily than that person, (Ecclesiastes 6, 5)

• All toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is never satisfied. (Ecclesiastes 6, 7)

• Better the object seen than the sting of desire: for the latter too is futile and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 6, 9)

• The more we say, the more futile it is: what good can we derive from it? (Ecclesiastes 6, 11)

• And who knows what is best for someone during life, during the days of futile life which are spent like a shadow? Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 6, 12)

• Better go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting; for to this end everyone comes, let the living take this to heart. (Ecclesiastes 7, 2)

• For like the crackling of thorns under the cauldron is the laughter of fools: and that too is futile. (Ecclesiastes 7, 6)

• But being oppressed drives a sage mad, and a present corrupts the heart. (Ecclesiastes 7, 7)

• Do not be too easily exasperated, for exasperation dwells in the heart of fools. (Ecclesiastes 7, 9)

• Do not ask why the past was better than the present, for this is not a question prompted by wisdom. (Ecclesiastes 7, 10)