Ecclesiastes:2:17-26
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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 cause my 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 ,
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 ?
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For all his days are sorrows ,
and his travail grief ;
yea ,
his heart taketh not rest in the night .
This is also vanity .
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There is nothing better for a man ,
than that he should eat and drink ,
and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour .
This also I saw ,
that it was from the hand of God .
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For who can eat ,
or who else can hasten hereunto ,
more than I ?
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For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom ,
and knowledge ,
and joy :
but to the sinner he giveth travail ,
to gather and to heap up ,
that he may give to him that is good before God .
This also is vanity and vexation of spirit .
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