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Ecclesiastes 2:16-18
English Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 2:16-18
English Standard Version
16 For of the wise as of the fool there is (A)no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. (B)How the wise dies just like the fool! 17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for (C)all is vanity and a striving after wind.
The Vanity of Toil
18 I hated (D)all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must (E)leave it to the man who will come after me,
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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