Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 (New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha)
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There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon humankind:
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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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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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For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
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moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.
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Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to one place?
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha)
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