Ecclesiastes 4:15-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 I saw all the living, those who move about under the sun, with the second youth who will succeed him.[a] 16 There is no end to all this people, to all who were before them; yet the later generations will not have joy in him. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.
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- 4:15 The king is no sooner dead than the people transfer their allegiance to his successor.
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