The Vanity of Toil

18 I hated (A)all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must (B)leave it to the man who will come after me,

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    Surely a man (A)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
    man (B)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath

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