nkjv Ecclesiastes:2:11-22-23 SEEK
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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled ;
And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind .
There was no profit under the sun .
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Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly ;
For what can the man do who succeeds the king ?--
Only what he has already done .
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Then I saw that wisdom excels folly As light excels darkness .
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The wise man '
s eyes are in his head ,
But the fool walks in darkness .
Yet I myself perceived That the same event happens to them all .
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So I said in my heart , "
As it happens to the fool ,
It also happens to me ,
And why was I then more wise ?"
Then I said in my heart , "
This also is vanity ."
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For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever ,
Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come .
And how does a wise man die ?
As the fool !
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Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me ,
for all is vanity and grasping for the wind .
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Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun ,
because I must leave it to the man who will come after me .
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And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool ?
Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun .
This also is vanity .
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Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun .
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For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom ,
knowledge ,
and skill ;
yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it .
This also is vanity and a great evil .
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For what has man for all his labor ,
and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun ?