{"reader_html":"<h1 class=\"chapter-heading\">Ecclesiastes<span class=\"chapter-label\">Chapter 6<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"1\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,1,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">1<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"2\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,2,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">2<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"3\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,3,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">3<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"4\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,4,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">4<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"5\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,5,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">5<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"6\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,6,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">6<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"7\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,7,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">7<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"8\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,8,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">8<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"9\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,9,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">9<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"10\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,10,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">10<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"11\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,21,6,11,&quot;Ecclesiastes&quot;)\">11<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-nav\"><a href=\"\/drb\/1\/21\/5\" class=\"nav-btn-lg nav-ajax\">&lsaquo; Previous<\/a><a href=\"\/drb\/1\/21\/7\" class=\"nav-btn-lg nav-ajax\">Next &rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","page_title":"Ecclesiastes, Chapter 6 — Douay-Rheims Bible","book_title":"Ecclesiastes","toolbar_title":"Ecclesiastes — Ch. 6","prev_url":"\/drb\/1\/21\/5","next_url":"\/drb\/1\/21\/7","tid":1,"book_id":21,"chapter":6,"num_chapters":12,"trans":"DRB","is_rtl":false,"strongs_data":{},"bsb_glosses":{},"book_name":"Ecclesiastes","canonical_url":"https:\/\/accept.gift\/drb\/1\/21\/6","meta_desc":"There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and…"}