Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 (Revised Standard Version)
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:
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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.
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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.
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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 told, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place?
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the 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. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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