Eccl 6
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:
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a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his
soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat thereof, but an alien
eats it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
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If a man engender a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his
years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial;
I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
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for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with
darkness;
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moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it; this has rest rather than the other:
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yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all
go to one place?
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All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? [or] what has the poor man, that
knows how to walk before the living?
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Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity
and a striving after wind.
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Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is know what man is;
neither can he contend with him whom is mightier than he.
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Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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For who knows what is good for man in [his] 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?