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Ecclesiastes 6:9-11
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Ecclesiastes 6:9-11
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
9 Better is the sight of the eyes [the enjoyment of what is available to one] than the cravings of wandering desire. This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility) and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it!
10 Whatever [man] is, he has been named that long ago, and it is known that it is man [a][Adam]; nor can he contend with Him who is mightier than he [whether God or death].
11 Seeing that there are [all these and] many other things and words that increase the emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility [of living], what profit and what outcome is there for man?
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- Ecclesiastes 6:10 The Hebrew “Adam” means man, of the ground. The very name witnesses to his frailty.
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