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Ecclesiastes 5:14-18

Ecclesiastes 5:14

When that wealth was lost through bad business and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This also is a sickening evil: exactly as a person is born, so will he die. What then is the advantage for him who labors for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his life he also eats in darkness with great irritation, sickness, and anger.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink, and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.