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When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
(Ecc 5:11) NASB
 
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Ecclesiastes 5:14 (NASB)

When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son,
then there was nothing to support him.
 
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Ecclesiastes 5:15 (NASB)

As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came.
He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.
 
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Ecclesiastes 5:18 (NASB)

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.
 
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Ecclesiastes 5:19 (NASB)

Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
 
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Ecclesiastes 5:20 (NASB)

For he will not often consider the years of his life,
because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.
 
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Ecclesiastes 6:2 (NKJV)
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 affliction.
 
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Ecclesiastes 6:3 (CSB)

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
 
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Ecclesiastes 6:4 (CSB)

For he comes in futility and he goes in darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
 
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Ecclesiastes 6:5 (CSB)

Though a stillborn child does not see the sun and is not conscious, it has more rest than he.
 
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Ecclesiastes 6:6 (CSB)

And if a person lives a thousand years twice, but does not experience happiness,
do not both go to the same place?
 
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Ecclesiastes 6:7 (NKJV)
7 All the labor of man is for his mouth,
And yet the soul is not satisfied.
 
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Ecclesiastes 6:8 (NKJV)
8 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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