Summary

Anonymous The World English Bible (WEB): Ecclesiastes

There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it. 008:009 All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt. 008:010 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity. 008:011 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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Anonymous The World English Bible (WEB): Ecclesiastes

Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity. 002:016 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool! 002:017 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. 002:018 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me. 002:019 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?
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Anonymous The World English Bible (WEB): Ecclesiastes

And what profit does he have who labors for the wind? 005:017 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath. 005:018 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. 005:019 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
Source: Gutenberg

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