Ecclesiastes 6:7-12

7The reason people work so hard is to get food. But they never have enough to eat.

8Does a wise person have a better life than a foolish person? No, he does not! Does it help a poor person if he knows how to live well? No!

9It is good to enjoy the things that we have. That is better than to want more things all the time. If you always try to get more things, that has no purpose. It is like somebody who tries to catch the wind.

10Everything that is here today already has its name. Everyone knows what we humans are like. It is useless to argue with someone who is more powerful than we are.

11If we talk too much, we will say silly things. So it will not help anyone to talk with many words.

12Nobody knows the best way for us to live our lives. We live for only a few years and our lives seem to have no purpose. Our lives quickly disappear, like a shadow. Nobody can tell us what will happen on the earth after our death.