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Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
24 There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God; 25 for apart from him[a] who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26 For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.[b]
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- Ecclesiastes 2:25 Gk Syr: Heb apart from me
- Ecclesiastes 2:26 Or a feeding on wind. See Hos 12.1
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