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Ecclesiastes 3:12

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I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 3:10

    I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

  2. Ecclesiastes 3:11

    He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

  3. Ecclesiastes 3:13

    And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

  4. Ecclesiastes 3:14

    I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.