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but humans are born to trouble
    just as sparks[a] fly upward.(A)

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  1. 5.7 Or birds; Heb sons of Resheph

Yet man is born to trouble(A)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

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What do people gain from all the toil
    at which they toil under the sun?(A)

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What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?(A)

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The King Is Like Other Mortals

I also am mortal like everyone else,
a descendant of the first-formed child of earth,
and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh,(A)

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'Wisdom 7:1' not found for the version: New International Version.

10 From the beginning all have been born of her, and others will come, and, behold, almost all walk to perdition, and a multitude of them will come to doom.(A)

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'2 Esdras 10:10' not found for the version: New International Version.