Douay Rheims Bible

Ecclesiastes 5

Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher

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Chapter 6

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  There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:  

 

 

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  A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.  

 

 

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  If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.  

 

 

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  For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.  

 

 

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  He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:  

 

 

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  Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?  

 

 

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  All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.  

 

 

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  What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?  

 

 

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  Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.  

 

 

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  He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.  

 

 

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  There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.  

 

 

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Ecclesiastes 7

 

 

 

 

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