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Ecclesiastes 5:15
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13 aThere is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt. 
14 But those riches perish through1 misfortune;
When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand. 
15 aAs he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand. 
16 And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And awhat profit has he bwho has labored for the wind? 
17 All his days ahe also eats in darkness,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.  
18 Here is what I have seen: aIt is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; bfor it is his heritage.  
19 As for aevery man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his1 heritage and rejoice in his labor—this is the bgift of God.  
Commentaries:
John Wesley's Notes
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Ecclesiastes 5:15

To go - Into the womb of the earth, the common mother of all mankind. Take nothing - This is another vanity. If his estate be neither lost, nor kept to his hurt, yet when he dies he must leave it behind him, and cannot carry one handful of it into another world.


 
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