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Ecclesiastes 6

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1Thereis an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: ✦ 2A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction. ✦ 3If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he— ✦ 4for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. ✦ 5Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man, ✦ 6even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one place? ✦ 7All the labor of man is for his mouth, And yet the soul is not satisfied. ✦ 8For what more has the wise man than the fool? What does the poor man have, Who knows how to walk before the living? ✦ 9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. ✦ 10Whatever one is, he has been named already, For it is known that he is man; And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he. ✦ 11Since there are many things that increase vanity, How is man the better? ✦ 12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun? ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

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The search that finds everything 'under the sun' to be vapor exposes the emptiness of life without God and drives us to the one who alone gives meaning, the resurrection that makes our labor not in vain.

How Ecclesiastes 6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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