>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/eccl/6?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07906::c07906) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/6.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Ecclesiastes/6.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/ecc/6/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>In this chapter, traditionally attributed to King Solomon, the focus is on the vanity of earthly pursuits, with the audience being those seeking wisdom and understanding about the nature of life. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>Sometimes people have lots of money and things, but they aren't happy because they can't enjoy them. It's better to be happy with what you have than always wanting more. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Ecclesiastes 6 discusses the futility of wealth and long life if one cannot enjoy them, highlighting the idea that without contentment, even the greatest riches are meaningless. The chapter reflects on the inability of material possessions to satisfy the soul, emphasizing that life can be full of vanity and uncertainties, where even the wise and the foolish face the same end. It questions what truly benefits a person during their life on earth, suggesting that many things considered valuable might not lead to real happiness. > >#Gospel/Contentment #Gospel/Wisdom #Gospel/Vanity ###### 1 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: ###### 2 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. ###### 3 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. ###### 4 4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. ###### 5 5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other. ###### 6 6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? ###### 7 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. ###### 8 8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? ###### 9 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. ###### 10 10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he. ###### 11 11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? ###### 12 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?