a person to whom God has (A)given riches, wealth, and honor, so that his soul (B)lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God has not given him the opportunity to [a]enjoy these things, but a foreigner [b]enjoys them. This is futility and a severe affliction. If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many [c]they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper (C)burial, then I say, “Better (D)the miscarriage than he, for a miscarriage comes in futility and goes into darkness; and its name is covered in darkness.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:2 Lit eat from it
  2. Ecclesiastes 6:2 Lit eats it
  3. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit the days of his years

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