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Ecclesiastes 5:16

“This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?”
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14Or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.

15As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

16This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

17Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

18Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.

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