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Ecclesiastes 5
¹⁵ As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return, To go as he came; And he shall take nothing from his labor Which he may carry away in his hand.
¹⁶ And this also is a severe evil-- Just exactly as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he who has labored for the wind?
¹⁷ All his days he also eats in darkness, And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.
¹⁸ Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage.
¹⁹ As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.
²⁰ For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.
Ecclesiastes 6
¹ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
² A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.
³ If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he--
⁴ for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
⁵ Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man,