Ecclesiastes 6
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Ecclesiastes 6:1-6

1There is an 1evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent 2among men-- 2a man to whom God has 3given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul 4lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner 5enjoys them. This is 6vanity and a severe affliction. 3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many 7they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper 8burial, then I say, “Better 9the miscarriage than he, 4for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity. 5It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; 10it is better off than he. 6Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not 11enjoy good things--12do not all go to one place?”

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Notes

  1. 1. Ecclesiastes 6:1 Eccl 5:13 ↩
  2. 2. Ecclesiastes 6:1 Lit upon ↩
  3. 3. Ecclesiastes 6:2 1 Kin 3:13 ↩
  4. 4. Ecclesiastes 6:2 Ps 17:14; 73:7; Eccl 2:10 ↩
  5. 5. Ecclesiastes 6:2 Lit eats from them ↩
  6. 6. Ecclesiastes 6:2 Or futility ↩
  7. 7. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit the days of his years ↩
  8. 8. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Is 14:20; Jer 8:2; 22:19 ↩
  9. 9. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Job 3:16; Eccl 4:3 ↩
  10. 10. Ecclesiastes 6:5 Lit more rest has this one than that ↩
  11. 11. Ecclesiastes 6:6 Lit see ↩
  12. 12. Ecclesiastes 6:6 Eccl 2:14 ↩

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