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16 (5:15) This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde? 17 (5:16) All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe. 18 (5:17) Therfore me thinke it a better and a fayrer thyng, a man to eate and drynke, and to be refresshed of all his labour that he taketh vnder the sunne, all the dayes of his lyfe which God geueth him: for this is his portion. 19 (5:18) For vnto whom soeuer God geueth riches, goodes, and power, he geueth it him to enioy it, to take it for his portion, and to be refresshed of his labour: this is the gyft of God. 20 (5:19) For he thinketh not much howe long he shall lyue, forasmuch as God fylleth his heart with gladnesse. Ecclesiastes 5:16-20, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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