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Ecclesiastes
6
There is also another evil, which I have seen under
the sun, and that frequent among men:
A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance,
and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that
he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat
thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity
and a great misery.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years,
and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use
of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial:
of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better
than he.
For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his
name shall be wholly forgotten.
He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of
good and evil:
Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed
good things: do not all make haste to one place?
All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul
shall not be filled.
What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what
the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to
desire that which thou canst not know. But this also
is vanity, and presumption of spirit.
He that shall be, his name is already called: and it
is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment
with him that is stronger than himself.
There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
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