2So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
3Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
4And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
5The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.
6One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.
7Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.
8It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
