Ecclesiastes 1:3
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Vanity of Human Toil
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- 1:3 Under the sun: used throughout this book to signify “on the earth.”
Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.(A)
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Ben Sira 44:9
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9 Of others no memory remains,
for when they perished, they perished,
As if they had never lived,
they and their children after them.
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