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ECCLESIASTES ยท Chapter 6
6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common
among men:
6:2 A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honour, so that
he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him
not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it
is an evil disease.
6:3 If a man brought forth an hundred children, and live many years,
so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with
good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is
better than he.
6:4 For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name
shall be covered with darkness.
6:5 Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this has
more rest than the other.
6:6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen
no good: do not all go to one place?
6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is
not filled.
6:8 For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that
knows to walk before the living?
6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire:
this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
6:10 That which has been is named already, and it is known that it
is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man
the better?
6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days
of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what
shall be after him under the sun?
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