Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 6:11
A church father on this verse
“Therefore he adds: "Words are very many," that is, few things are known: below, chapter 10: "The fool multiplies words." "And having much vanity in disputing," and little truth, above, chapter 3: "He has delivered the world to their disputation, so that man may not find the work which God has wrought from the beginnin…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11For there are many things which increase vanity.
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In context
9The sight of the eyes is better than that which wanders in soul: This is also vanity, and waywardness of spirit.
10If anything has been, its name has already been called: And it is known what man is; Neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he.
— Ecclesiastes 6:11 —
12What advantage has a man? For who knows what is good for a man in his life, During the number of the life of the days of his vanity? And he has spent them as a shadow; For who shall tell a man What shall be after him under the sun?