Ecclesiastes 6:1-6

The Vanity of Unenjoyed Wealth

Ecclesiastes 6:1-6
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There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:
2
A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.
3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
4
For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
5
He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
6
Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
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