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Read Full Chapter (Ecclesiastes 6) Ecclesiastes 6:8 KJV
"For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?"
Ecclesiastes 6:8 in Context (Verses 5–11 KJV)
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Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
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¶ Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
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All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.*
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For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
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¶ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.*
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That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
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¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?