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Take Life as It Comes

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] since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[b] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:1 Syr Compare Gk: Heb Everything before them is everything
  2. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Gk Syr Vg: Heb lacks and the evil

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