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| 13 applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be busy with. | 13 I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! |
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