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13 Behold thou the works of God, and see that no man may amend him, whom God hath despised.

14 In a good day use thou (thy) goods, and before eschew thou an evil day (On a good day, enjoy thy good things, but shun thou them on an evil day); for God made so this day as that day, (so) that a man find not just complainings against him.

15 Also I saw these things in the days of my nativity[a]; a just man perisheth in his rightfulness, and a wicked man liveth much time in his malice. (And I have seen these things since the day of my birth/in my empty and futile days; a righteous person perisheth in his righteousness, and a wicked person liveth a great deal of time in his malice.)

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  1. Ecclesiastes 7:15 That is, (the days) of (this) present life, that passeth soon away, so it is not no but vanity (so that they be but empty and futile).