4. For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5. Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this one has more rest than the other.
6. Yea, though he lives a thousand years twice over, yet he has seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7. All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8. For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, who knows to walk before the living?
9. Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and grasping after the wind.
10. Whatever has been is named already, and it is known that this is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
11. Since there are many things that increase vanity, how is man the better?