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1 For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them. 2 All according to all: one event to the just one and to the unjust one; to the good one and to the clean one, and to the unclean one; to him sacrificing and to him not sacrificing: as the good one, so the sinning one; he swearing, as he who shall fear an oath. 3 This an evil in all being done under the sun, thus one event is to all: and also the heart of the sons of man being full of evil, and folly in their heart in their living, and after it to their deaths. 4 For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion. 5 For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten. 6 Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy perished already; and no more portion to them forever in all which was done under the sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1-6, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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