Catholic Public Domain Version

Ecclesiastes 6:8-11 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. What do the wise have which is more than the foolish? And what does the pauper have, except to continue on to that place, where there is life?

9. It is better to see what you desire, than to desire what you cannot know. But this, too, is emptiness and a presumption of spirit.

10. Whoever shall be in the future, his name has already been called. And it is known that he is a man and that he is not able to contend in judgment against one who is stronger than himself.

11. There are many words, and many of these, in disputes, hold much emptiness.