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Ecclesiastes 2:14-23

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14because wise people walk in the daylight and IDM can see where they are going, but foolish people walk in the darkness and cannot see where they are going.” But I also realized that both wise people and foolish people eventually die.
15So I said to myself, “I am very wise, but I will die at the end of my life, like foolish people do. So ◄how has it benefited me to be very wise?/it certainly has not benefited me to be very wise RHQ►. I do not understand why people consider that it is valuable to be wise.
16Wise people and foolish people all die. And after we die, we will all eventually be forgotten DOU.”
17So I hated being alive, because everything that we do here on the earth MTY distresses me. It all seems to be useless like chasing the wind.
18I also began to hate all the hard work that I had done, because when I die, everything that I have acquired will belong to the next king.
19And ◄who/no one► knows RHQ whether he will be wise or whether he will be foolish. But even if he is foolish, he will acquire all the things that I worked very hard and wisely to get.
20I thought about all the hard work that I had done. It seemed useless, and I became depressed/discouraged.
21Some people work wisely and skillfully, using the things that they have learned. But when they die, they leave everything, and someone who has not worked hard acquires those things. And that also seemed to be senseless and caused me to be discouraged.
22So, it seems that people do not RHQ get much for all the hard work that they do and for worrying.
23Every day the work that they do causes them to experience pain and to be worried. And during the night, their minds are not able to rest. That also is very frustrating.

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