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Ecclesiastes 2:15

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Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

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Verse 15. Vanity. This inference was false, (verse 16) or my labouring for wisdom was to no purpose. Calmet.—Septuagint “I then spoke more in my heart, (for the fool speaks out of his abundance) since this also is vanity.” Bible.

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