Ecclesiastes Chapter 6
So I noticed some super sus evil energy going down under the sun, and it’s just a regular thing for folks.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it {is} common among men:
There’s this guy stacked with mad cash, wealth, and clout, but he can't even vibe with it; some random stranger is feasting on his winnings: that’s just straight-up vanity, no cap.
A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this {is} vanity, and it {is} an evil disease.
If a dude pops out a hundred kids and lives forever, but never feels fulfilled and can’t even get a proper farewell; honestly, being born too early is a better deal than that.
If a man beget an hundred {children}, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also {that} he have no burial; I say, {that} an untimely birth {is} better than he.
He rolls in with all that emptiness and dips out in darkness, like, his name is just a ghost now.
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Plus, he hasn't even peeped the sun or known anything: that dude's got more chill than the rest of us.
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.
Even if he kicks it for a thousand years, he hasn't seen any solid vibes: don’t we all just end up in the same spot?
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
All the hustle is just to fill his mouth, but he’s still starving, fr.
All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}
What’s the wise dude got over the fool? What does the broke dude have if he knows how to walk in front of the living?
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Better to see with your own eyes than to chase after wild cravings: that’s just more vanity and stress.
Better {is} the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this {is} also vanity and vexation of spirit. {than...: Heb. than the walking of the soul}
What’s already happened is already labeled, and we know it’s man: he can't even dispute with someone tougher than him.
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it {is} man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Since there’s so much that just fuels vanity, what’s the purpose for man?
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what {is} man the better?
Who even knows what’s solid for man in this life, with all his empty days that just zip by like a shadow? Who can spill the tea on what’s next under the sun?
For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}