The Futility of Labor

18 So I hated (A)all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, because I must (B)leave it to the man who will come after me.

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18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.(A)

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12 For who knows what is good for a person during his lifetime, during the few [a]years of his futile life? He will [b]spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a person (A)what will happen after him under the sun?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:12 Lit days
  2. Ecclesiastes 6:12 Lit do

12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days(A) they pass through like a shadow?(B) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

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If no one (A)knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?

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Since no one knows the future,
    who can tell someone else what is to come?

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14 Yet the (A)fool multiplies words. No person knows what will happen, and who can tell him (B)what will come after him?

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14     and fools multiply words.(A)

No one knows what is coming—
    who can tell someone else what will happen after them?(B)

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