19 You will eat bread[a] by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,(A)
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

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Footnotes

  1. 3:19 Or food

23 For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful;(A) even at night, his mind does not rest.(B) This too is futile.

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26 For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy;(A) but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight.(B) This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.(C)

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10 I have seen the task that God has given the children of Adam to keep them occupied.(A)

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There is a person without a companion,[a] without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.(A) “Who am I struggling for,” he asks, “and depriving myself of good things?” This too is futile and a miserable task.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:8 Lit person, but there is not a second,

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