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Ecclesiastes 6:1-3
New American Standard Bible 1995
Ecclesiastes 6:1-3
New American Standard Bible 1995
The Futility of Life
6 There is an (A)evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent [a]among men— 2 a man to whom God has (B)given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul (C)lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner [b]enjoys them. This is [c]vanity and a severe affliction. 3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many [d]they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper (D)burial, then I say, “Better (E)the miscarriage than he,
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- Ecclesiastes 6:1 Lit upon
- Ecclesiastes 6:2 Lit eats from them
- Ecclesiastes 6:2 Or futility
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit the days of his years
New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)
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