Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 6:12
A church father on this verse
“Here he calls back a third time from scrutinizing lofty things and inquiring into them, and this, since he has enough to do in knowing his own evils, or common ones. Therefore he says: "What need is there for a man to seek things greater than himself?" as if to say, there is no need: Sirach 3: "Seek not the things tha…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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?
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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.
11For there are many things which increase vanity.
— Ecclesiastes 6:12 —