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Ecclesiastes 5:13-16 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

13. There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

14. Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

15. As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

16. This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labours for the wind?

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