A man to whom God hathgivenriches, wealth, and honour, so that he wantethnothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a strangereateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evildisease.
If a man beget an hundredchildren, and livemanyyears, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filledwithgood, and alsothat he have no burial; I say, that an untimelybirth is betterthan he.
For who knowethwhat is good for man in thislife, all the days of his vainlifewhich he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man whatshall be after him under the sun?