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There is something wicked
which I saw under the sun,
and it is heavy on human beings:
2a person to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honour,
and who has no lack regarding their appetite
for anything that they desire,
but God doesn’t empower them to eat of it,
and a stranger eats it.
This is a mere breath and a bad sickness.
3If a man fathers a hundred (children)
and lives many years,
and the days of their years are great,
and their appetite (soul) is not satisfied from the good things:
and also they have no burial,
I say the stillbirth is better off than them.
4Because it comes in a mere breath
and it goes in darkness,
and its name is covered in darkness;
5though it doesn’t see or know the sun,
that one is more settled than the other one.
And if they live a thousand years, twice over
and do not see good things
– Do they not go to the same place?
O Lord Jesus Christ,
stay beside me to defend me,
within me to guide me,
before me to lead me,
and above me to bless me,
that with you and in you,
I may live, and move and have my being,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
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