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1	I looked again and saw people being mistreated everywhere on earth. They were crying, but no one was there to offer comfort, and those who mistreated them were powerful.	So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2	I said to myself, “The dead are better off than the living.	Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3	But those who have never been born are better off than anyone else, because they have never seen the terrible things that happen on this earth.”	Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4	Then I realized that we work and do wonderful things just because we are jealous of others. This makes no more sense than chasing the wind.	Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5	Fools will fold their hands and starve to death.	The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
6	Yet a very little food eaten in peace is better than twice as much earned from overwork and chasing the wind.	Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
7	Once again I saw that nothing on earth makes sense.	Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8	For example, some people don't have friends or family. But they are never satisfied with what they own, and they never stop working to get more. They should ask themselves, “Why am I always working to have more? Who will get what I leave behind?” What a senseless and miserable life!	There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
9	It Is Better To Have a Friend You are better having a friend than to be all alone, because then you will get more enjoyment out of what you earn.	Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10	If you fall, your friend can help you up. But if you fall without having a friend nearby, you are really in trouble.	For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
11	If you sleep alone, you won't have anyone to keep you warm on a cold night.	Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12	Someone might be able to beat up one of you, but not both of you. As the saying goes, “A rope made from three strands of cord is hard to break.”	And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13	You may be poor and young, but if you are wise, you are better off than a foolish old king who won't listen to advice.	Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
14	Even if you were not born into the royal family and have been a prisoner and poor, you can still be king.	For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
15	I once saw everyone in the world follow a young leader who came to power after the king was gone.	I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
16	His followers could not even be counted. But years from now, no one will praise him—this makes no more sense than chasing the wind.	There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.