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Ecclesiastes 2:18
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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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Ecclesiastes 2:18
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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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Ecclesiastes 2:18
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18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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Ecclesiastes 6:12
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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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  1. Ecclesiastes 6:12 Lit days
  2. Ecclesiastes 6:12 Lit do
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Ecclesiastes 6:12
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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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Ecclesiastes 6:12
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12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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Ecclesiastes 8:7
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7 If no one (A)knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?

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Ecclesiastes 8:7
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7 Since no one knows the future,
    who can tell someone else what is to come?

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Ecclesiastes 8:7
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7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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Ecclesiastes 10:14
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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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Ecclesiastes 10:14
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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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Ecclesiastes 10:14
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14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

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