15 ‘The leech has two daughters.
    “Give! Give!” they cry.

‘There are three things that are never satisfied,
    four that never say, “Enough!”:
16 the grave, the barren womb,
    land, which is never satisfied with water,
    and fire, which never says, “Enough!”

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Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

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19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: as one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[a]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or spirit