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What advantage do the wise have over the foolish? Or what do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before the living? It’s better to enjoy what’s at hand than to have an insatiable appetite. This too is pointless, just wind chasing.

10 Whatever happens has already been designated, and human beings are fully known. They can’t contend with the one who is stronger than they are.

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What advantage have the wise over fools?(A)
What do the poor gain
    by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
Better what the eye sees
    than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
    a chasing after the wind.(B)

10 Whatever exists has already been named,(C)
    and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
    with someone who is stronger.

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