Ecclesiastes 9:1

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Take Life as It Comes

9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate man does not know. Everything before them is vanity,^[a]

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Ecclesiastes 9:1 Syr Compare Gk: Heb Everything before them is everything

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