Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 6:5
A church father on this verse
“"There is an evil I have observed beneath the sun, and it is prevalent among mankind; a man to whom God has given riches, wealth and honour, and he lacks nothing that his heart could desire, yet God did not give him the power to enjoy it. This is futility and an evil disease. If a man begets an hundred children and li…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest: There is no more rest to this one than another.
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3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, And also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.
4For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, And his name shall be covered in darkness.
— Ecclesiastes 6:5 —
6Though he has lived to the return of a thousand years, Yet he has seen no good: Do not all go to one place?
7All the labor of a man is for his mouth, And yet the appetite shall not be satisfied.