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| 6:1 |
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon humankind:
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| 6:2 |
those to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that they lack nothing of all that they desire, yet God does not enable them to enjoy these things, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous ill.
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| 6:3 |
A man may beget a hundred children, and live many years; but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life's good things, or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
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| 6:4 |
For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
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| 6:5 |
moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.
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| 6:6 |
Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good-- do not all go to one place?
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| 6:7 |
All human toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is not satisfied.
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| 6:8 |
For what advantage have the wise over fools? And what do the poor have who know how to conduct themselves before the living?
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| 6:9 |
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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| 6:10 |
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what human beings are, and that they are not able to dispute with those who are stronger.
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| 6:11 |
The more words, the more vanity, so how is one the better?
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| 6:12 |
For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?
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