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Ecclesiastes 5:16

Young's Literal Translation YLT

New International Version NIV

16 And this also [is] a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage [is] to him who laboureth for wind?

16 This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?

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