Ecclesiastes 6
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Ecclesiastes 6:7-12

7Everyone’s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

8What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?

9Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

10Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.

11The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?

12For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

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