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moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.
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Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
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All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
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Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
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That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.
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For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?
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For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?