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Thursday, May 9, 2019

Ecclesiastes 6:1-6


[1] There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:
[2] a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.
[3] If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.
[4] For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
[5] moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.
[6] Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place? 




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