Ecclesiastes 5:14-16

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¹⁴ and those riches were lost in a bad venture; though they are parents of children, they have nothing in their hands. ¹⁵ As they came from their mother’s womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil that they may carry away with their hands.^{(A) 16} This also is a grievous ill: just as they came, so shall they go, and what gain do they have from toiling for the wind?^(B)