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If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; moreover it hath not seen the sun [a]nor known it; [b]this hath rest rather than the other: yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

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  1. Ecclesiastes 6:5 Or, neither had any knowledge
  2. Ecclesiastes 6:5 Or, it is better with this than with the other