14 There is a vanity, which is done upon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it cometh according to the [a]work of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it cometh according to the work of the just: I thought also that this is vanity.

15 And I praised joy, for there is no goodness to man under the sun, save [b]to eat and to drink and to rejoice: for this is adjoined to his labor the days of his life that God hath given him under the sun.

16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to behold the business that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleep,

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:14 Which are punished as though they were wicked, as Eccl. 7:17.
  2. Ecclesiastes 8:15 Read Eccl. 3:22.

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