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13 Here is a terrible thing that I have seen in this world: people save up their money for a time when they may need it,[a] 14 and then lose it all in some bad deal and end up with nothing left to pass on to their children. 15 (A)We leave this world just as we entered it—with nothing. In spite of all our work there is nothing we can take with us. 16 It isn't right! We go just as we came. We labor, trying to catch the wind, and what do we get? 17 We get to live our lives in darkness and grief,[b] worried, angry, and sick.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 5:13 for … it; or to their own hurt.
  2. Ecclesiastes 5:17 Some ancient translations in darkness and grief; Hebrew eating in darkness.

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