V.1-16 If the last few verses of chapter 3 were true, it is better to be dead than alive, and better yet never to have been born! But if living, it is better to have a little of this world’s goods and quietness, than to have much and distress.
V.7-12 Better to have companions than to live alone.
V.13-16 Solomon failed at the end of his life as king, and here he is concerned over whether his son would take the warnings. Please don’t forget that these chapters are the findings and reasonings of man, not God’s thoughts.