Ecclesiastes:2:11-22-23
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Then I looked on all t works that my hands had wrought ,
and on the labour that I had laboured to do :
and ,
behold ,
all was vanity and vexation of spirit ,
and there was no profit under the sun .
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And I turned myself to behold wisdom ,
and madness ,
and folly :
for what can the man do that cometh after the king ?
even that which hath been already done .
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Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly ,
as far as light excelleth darkness .
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The wise mans eyes are in his head ro #
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but the fool walketh in darkness :
and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all .
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Then said I in my heart ,
As it happeneth to the fool ,
so it happeneth even to me ;
and why was I then more wise ?
Then I said in my heart ,
that this also is vanity .
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For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever ;
seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten .
And how dieth the wise man ?
as the fool .
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Therefore I hated life ;
because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me :
for all is vanity and vexation of spirit .
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Yea ,
I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun :
because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me .
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And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool ?
yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured ,
and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun .
This is also vanity .
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Therefore I went about to causemy heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun .
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For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom ,
and in knowledge da #
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and in equity ;
yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion .
This also is vanity and a great evil .
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For what hath man of all his labour ,
and of the vexation of his heart ,
wherein he hath laboured under the sun ?