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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Everyone&#8217;s toil is for their mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.6.7"><span class="content">yet their appetite is never satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">What advantage have the wise over fools?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.6.8"><span class="content">What do the poor gain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.6.8"><span class="content">by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Better what the eye sees</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.6.9"><span class="content">than the roving of the appetite.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.6.9"><span class="content">This too is meaningless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.6.9"><span class="content">a chasing after the wind.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Whatever exists has already been named,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.6.10"><span class="content">and what humanity is has been known;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.6.10"><span class="content">no one can contend</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.6.10"><span class="content">with someone who is stronger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The more the words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.6.11"><span class="content">the less the meaning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.6.11"><span class="content">and how does that profit anyone?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?</span></span></div>
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