⁶⁹ And if after death we were not to come into judgment, perhaps it would have been better for us.”^(A)

²² What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?^(A)

²³ For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.^(A)

¹² and said to him, “It would have been better for us not to be here than to come here and live in ungodliness and to suffer and not understand why.”^(A)