Ecclesiastes/Qohelet 6

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 I see another evil under the sun, which goes hard with people:	1 There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:
2 suppose someone has received from God riches, property, honours -- nothing at al left to wish for; butGod does not give the chance to enjoy them, and some stranger enjoys them. This is futile, and grievoussuffering too.	2 A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.
3 Or take someone who has had a hundred children and lived for many years, and, having reached oldage, has never enjoyed the good things of life and has not even got a tomb; it seems to me, a still-born child ishappier.	3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
4 In futility it came, into darkness it departs, and in darkness will its name be buried.	4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
5 It has never so much as seen or known the sun; al the same, it wil rest more easily than that person,	5 He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
6 who would never have known the good things of life, even by living a thousand years twice over. Do wenot al go to the same place in the end?	6 Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
7 Al toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is never satisfied.	7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.
8 What advantage has the wise over the fool? And what of the pauper who knows how to behave insociety?	8 What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
9 Better the object seen than the sting of desire: for the latter too is futile and chasing after the wind.	9 Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.
10 What has been is already defined -- we know what people are: They cannot bring to justice one who isstronger than themselves.	10 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.
11 The more we say, the more futile it is: what good can we derive from it?	11 There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
12 And who knows what is best for someone during life, during the days of futile life which are spent like ashadow? Who can tel anyone what wil happen after him under the sun?