[Lectio1] Lesson from the book of Ecclesiastes !Eccl 6:1-2 1 There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men: 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. [Lectio2] !Eccl 6:3-6 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 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten. 5 He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil: 6 Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things. [Lectio3] !Eccl 6:6-9 6 do not all make haste to one place? 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled. 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 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.