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Ecclesiastes 2:17-19
English Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 2:17-19
English Standard Version
17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for (A)all is vanity and a striving after wind.
The Vanity of Toil
18 I hated (B)all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must (C)leave it to the man who will come after me, 19 and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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