There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes presents human life and human pursuits apart from God as vain and useless, and this verse belongs to that message. The common evil seen under the sun is gaining the means of enjoyment and then being unable to enjoy them. Young men should learn this lesson from the verse. They should turn from storing up enjoyments they cannot use and instead seek the good part that keeps growing better as everything else grows worse.
Ecclesiastes presents human life and human pursuits apart from God as vain and useless, and this verse belongs to that message. The common evil seen under the sun is gaining the means of enjoyment and then being unable to enjoy them. Young men should learn this lesson from the verse. They should turn from storing up enjoyments they cannot use and instead seek the good part that keeps growing better as everything else grows worse.