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17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.[a]

18 I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who come after me 19 —and who knows whether they will be wise or foolish? Yet they will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:17 Or a feeding on wind. See Hos 12.1

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