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16 This also is a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit does he gain for all his toil for the wind? 17 Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated in much sickness and resentment.

If You Have Wealth, Enjoy It as God Enables

18 Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and to enjoy[a] all the fruit of the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him—for this is his lot.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:18 Literally “to see goodness”
  2. Ecclesiastes 5:18 Or “fate”