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Ecclesiastes 2:26
New American Bible, revised edition
For to the one who pleases God, he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the one who displeases, God gives the task of gathering possessions for the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24-25
There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and provide themselves with good things from their toil. Even this, I saw, is from the hand of God. For who can eat or drink apart from God?
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the fruit of the toil for which I had toiled so much, see! all was vanity and a chase after wind. There is no profit under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 2:10
Nothing that my eyes desired did I deny them, nor did I deprive myself of any joy; rather, my heart rejoiced in the fruit of all my toil. This was my share for all my toil.
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Ecclesiastes 2:13
And I saw that wisdom has as much profit over folly as light has over darkness.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
Wise people have eyes in their heads, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.
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Ecclesiastes 2:21
For here is one who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and that one’s legacy must be left to another who has not toiled for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
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