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Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
The Message
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
The Message
3-5 Say a couple have scores of children and live a long, long life but never enjoy themselves—even though they end up with a big funeral! I’d say that a stillborn baby gets the better deal. It gets its start in a mist and ends up in the dark—unnamed. It sees nothing and knows nothing, but is better off by far than anyone living.
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Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson
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