Ecclesiastes 6:5
Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.
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- Job 3:10-13 : 10 Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes. 11 Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! 12 Wherefore have knees been before me? And what `are' breasts, that I suck? 13 For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,
- Job 14:1 : 1 Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
- Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail that melteth he goeth on, `As' an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
- Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
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6And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?
7All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.
8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?
9Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
10What `is' that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it `is' man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.
11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?
12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
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1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:
2A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this `is' vanity, and it `is' an evil disease.
3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'
4For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,
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2And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
3And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.
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21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.
22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?
23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.
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14And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!
15As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand.
16And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?
17Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.
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5Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.
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16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
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3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
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5For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.
6Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.
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7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:
8There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
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19It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.
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7Sweet also `is' the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.
8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.
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9Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
10He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.
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6Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.
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12And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
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9The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
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19Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.
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15I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;
16there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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20For he doth not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.
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10And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is' vanity.
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19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.
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12Sweet `is' the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.
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16That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!
17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
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17There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
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7For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?
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9What `is' that which hath been? it `is' that which is, and what `is' that which hath been done? it `is' that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.
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6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
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29He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.