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Should such a one live twice a thousand years and not enjoy those goods, do not both go to the same place?[a]

All human toil is for the mouth,[b] yet the appetite is never satisfied. What profit have the wise compared to fools, or what profit have the lowly in knowing how to conduct themselves in life?

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Footnotes

  1. 6:6 Same place: the grave; cf. 3:20; 12:7.
  2. 6:7 The mouth: symbolic of human desires.