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Ecclesiastes 6:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ecclesiastes 6:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 those to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that they lack nothing of all that they desire, yet God does not enable them to enjoy these things, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous ill.(A) 3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.(B) 4 For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
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