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Ecclesiastes 6:1
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Wealth Is Not the Goal of Life

6 There(A) is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

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Ecclesiastes 6:2
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2 A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, (A)so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; (B)yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil [a]affliction.

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