(A)What profit has a man from all his labor
In which he [a]toils under the sun?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:3 labors

(A)That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.

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14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

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11 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 (A)vanity and grasping for the wind.
There was no profit under the sun.

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19 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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20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.

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22 (A)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

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Injustice Seems to Prevail

16 Moreover (A)I saw under the sun:

In the place of [a]judgment,
Wickedness was there;
And in the place of righteousness,
[b]Iniquity was there.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:16 justice
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:16 Wickedness

(A)Yet, better than both is he who has never existed,
Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun:

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