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Ecclesiastes 6 Wealth is Not the Goal of Life

Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 Wealth is Not the Goal of Life

Ecclesiastes 6:1-2
1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: 2 A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil [a]affliction.

Ecclesiastes 6:3-6
3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he— 4 for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man, 6 even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 6:7-9
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All the labor of man is for his mouth,
And yet the soul is not satisfied.
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For what more has the wise man than the fool?
What does the poor man have,
Who knows how to walk before the living?
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Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire.
This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:10-11
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Whatever one is, he has been named already,
For it is known that he is man;
And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.
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Since there are many things that increase vanity,
How is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 6:12
12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?