Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
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- Job 3:10-13 : 10 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
- Job 14:1 : 1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
- Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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- Eccl 6:6-127 verses82%
6Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?
7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
10Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
- Eccl 6:1-44 verses80%
1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:
2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
4for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
- Eccl 4:2-32 verses78%
2Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
3Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- Eccl 2:21-233 verses75%
21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
- Eccl 5:14-174 verses75%
14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
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5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
- Eccl 8:16-172 verses73%
16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
17then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
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3What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
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5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
- Eccl 4:7-82 verses72%
7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
8There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
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19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
- Eccl 11:7-82 verses72%
7Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.
8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
- Job 7:9-102 verses72%
9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
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12so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
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9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
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19He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
- Eccl 4:15-162 verses71%
15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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20For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
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10So 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.
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19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
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12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
- Eccl 2:16-172 verses71%
16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
17So 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.
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17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
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7For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
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9That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
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29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.