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Ecclesiastes 5:16-18
International Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 5:16-18
International Standard Version
16 This is also a painful tragedy:
However a person comes, he also departs;
so what does he gain as he labors after the wind?
17 Furthermore, all his days he lives[a] in darkness
with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.
The Use and Abuse of Accomplishment
18 Look! I observed that it is good and prudent to eat, drink, and enjoy all that is good of a person’s[b] work that he does on earth during the limited days of his life, which God gives him, for this is his allotment.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:17 Lit. eats
- Ecclesiastes 5:18 Lit. of his
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