Ecclesiastes 6:5
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
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- Job 3:10-13 : 10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes. 11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath? 12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk? 13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
- Job 14:1 : 1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
- Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
- Ps 90:7-9 : 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
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- Eccl 6:6-127 verses82%
6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
10 That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
- Eccl 6:1-44 verses80%
1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;
2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
- Eccl 4:2-32 verses78%
2 So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
3 Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
- Eccl 2:21-233 verses75%
21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
- Eccl 5:14-174 verses75%
14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
17 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
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5 The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.
- Eccl 8:16-172 verses73%
16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
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3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
- Eccl 9:5-62 verses73%
5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
6 Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
- Eccl 4:7-82 verses72%
7 Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.
8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
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19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
- Eccl 11:7-82 verses72%
7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
- Job 7:9-102 verses72%
9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
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6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
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12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
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9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
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19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.
- Eccl 4:15-162 verses71%
15 I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.
16 There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
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10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
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19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
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12 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
- Eccl 2:16-172 verses71%
16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!
17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
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17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
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7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
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9 That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
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6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
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29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.