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Ecclesiastes 5:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ecclesiastes 5:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 As they came from their mother’s womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil that they may carry away with their hands.(A) 16 This also is a grievous ill: just as they came, so shall they go, and what gain do they have from toiling for the wind?(B) 17 Besides, all their days they eat in darkness, in much anger and sickness and resentment.(C)
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Ecclesiastes 5:15-17
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 5:15-17
New International Version
15 Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.(A)
They take nothing from their toil(B)
that they can carry in their hands.(C)
16 This too is a grievous evil:
As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?(D)
17 All their days they eat in darkness,
with great frustration, affliction and anger.
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