15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor.

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15 I saw all the living who walk under the sun;
They were with the second youth who stands in his place.

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16 There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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16 There was no end of all the people [a]over whom he was made king;
Yet those who come afterward will not rejoice in him.
Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 4:16 Lit. to all before whom he was to be