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"I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity."
EcclesiastesThen I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on u — Ecclesiastes
"Then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it."
Ecclesiastes
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Ecclesiastes is one of the Ketuvim ('Writings') of the Hebrew Bible and part of the wisdom literature of the Christian Old Testament. The title commonly used in English is a Latin transliteration of the Greek translation of the Hebrew word קֹהֶלֶת. An unnamed author introduces "The words of Kohelet, son of David, king in Jerusalem" (1:1) and does not use his own voice again until the final verses
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