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Ecclesiastes 2:11-12

Turning to Consider

Pleasure, Labor, and What Remains · Ecclesiastes 2

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11Then I turned to consider all the works that my hands had done, and the labor I had put into doing them; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

12So I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the man who comes after the king do? Only what has already been done.

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