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Ecclesiastes 6:7-11 American Standard Version (ASV)

7. All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

8. For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

9. Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

10. Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is know what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.

11. Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

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