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Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":3,"text":"A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":4,"text":"For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":5,"text":"The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":6,"text":"even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":7,"text":"All a man’s labor is for his mouth,\nyet his appetite is never satisfied.","footnotes":[{"noteId":5,"offset":72,"text":"Hebrew filled","caller":"+"}],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":35,"level":1},{"start":36,"end":72,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":8,"text":"What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":9,"text":"Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. 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