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Ecclesiastes 2 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
14 The eyes of a wiseman are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I have learned that there was one death of both.
15 And I said in my heart: if the fall of the fool & mine shall be one, what doth it profit me, that I have bestowed greater labour for wisdom? And speaking with my mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
16 For there shall be no memory of the wise in like manner as of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.
17 And therefore I have been weary of my life, seeing all things under the sun to be evil, and all things vanity and affliction of spirit.
Futility of Work
18 Again, I detested all mine industry, wherewith I have laboured under the sun most studiously, being like to have an heir after me:
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