A moment in scripture
Ecclesiastes 6:6
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Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
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The surrounding passage
- Ecclesiastes 6:4
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
- Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
- Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.