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Ecclesiastes 5:14

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14 For they perish in the worst torment; (and) he begat a son, that shall be in sovereign neediness. (And then those riches be lost in a terrible calamity; and so he hath begotten a son, who shall be left in great neediness.)

14 or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.