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From PDF Ecclesiastes 1-4

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\v 2 I said about laughter, "It is crazy," and about pleasure, "What use is it?"
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\v 3 I explored in my heart how to gratify my desires with wine. I let my mind guide me with wisdom although I was still holding on to folly. I wanted to find out what is good for the children of mankind to do under heaven during the days of their lives.
\v 3 I explored in my heart how to gratify myself with wine. I let my mind guide me with wisdom although I was still holding on to folly. I wanted to find out what is good for the children of mankind to do under heaven during the days of their lives.
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\v 4 I accomplished great things. I built for myself houses and planted for myself vineyards.
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\v 11 Then I looked on all the deeds that my hands had accomplished,
\q2 and on the work that I had done,
\q2 and on the labor that I had done,
\q1 but again, everything was meaningless—like chasing the wind.
\q2 There was no profit under the sun in it.
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\v 13 Then I began to understand
\q2 that wisdom has advantages over folly,
\q2 just as light is better than darkness.
\q2 just as light is more profitable than darkness.
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\v 14 The wise man uses his eyes in his head to see where he is going,
\q2 but the fool walks in darkness,
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\v 17 So I detested life because all the work done under the sun was evil to me. This was because everything is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
\v 18 I hated all my accomplishments for which I had worked under the sun because I must leave them behind to the man who comes after me.
\v 18 I hated all my accomplishments for which I had labored under the sun because I must leave them behind to the man who comes after me.
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\v 19 For who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over everything under the sun that my work and wisdom have built. This also is meaningless.
\v 20 Therefore my heart began to despair over all the work under the sun that I did.
\v 19 For who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over everything under the sun that my labor and wisdom have built. This also is meaningless.
\v 20 So I began to give my heart to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
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\v 21 For there might be someone who works with wisdom, with knowledge, and skill, but he will leave everything he has to a man who has not made any of it. This also is meaningless—a great injustice.
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\v 24 There is nothing better for a person than to simply eat and drink and be satisfied with what is good in his work. I saw that this truth comes from the hand of God.
\v 24 There is nothing better for a person than to simply eat and drink and find enjoyment in his labor. I saw that this truth comes from the hand of God.
\v 25 For who can eat or who can have any kind of pleasure apart from God?
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\v 1 For everything there is an appointed time, and a season for every purpose under heaven.
\v 1 For everything there is an appointed time, and a season for every matter under heaven.
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\v 2 There is a time to be born and a time to die,
\q1 a time to plant and a time to pull up plants,
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\v 12 I know that there is nothing better for a person than to rejoice and to do good so long as he lives—
\v 13 and that everyone should eat and drink, and should understand how to enjoy the good that comes from all his work. This is God's gift to mankind.
\v 13 and that everyone should eat and drink, and should understand how to find enjoyment in his labor. This is God's gift to mankind.
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\v 14 I know that whatever God does lasts forever. Nothing can be added to it or taken away, because it is God who has done it so that people will approach him with honor.
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\q2 so his food is his own flesh.
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\v 6 But better is a handful of profit with quiet work
\q2 than two handfuls with the work that tries to shepherd the wind.
\q2 than two handfuls with the labor that tries to shepherd the wind.
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\v 8 There is the kind of man who is alone.
\q2 He does not have a person, no son or brother,
\q2 He does not have a companion, no son or brother,
\q1 and yet there is no end to all his work,
\q2 and his eyes are not satisfied with gaining wealth.
\q1 He wonders, "For whom am I toiling
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\v 18 Look, what I have seen to be good and suitable is to eat and drink and to enjoy the gain from all our work, as we labor under the sun during the days of this life that God has given us. For this is man's assignment.
\v 18 Look, what I have seen to be good and suitable is for a person to eat and drink and to find enjoyment in his labor as he labors under the sun during the days of this life that God has given him. For this is man's assignment.
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\v 19 Every person to whom God has given riches and wealth and the ability to receive his share and rejoice in his work—this is a gift from God.