Ecclesiastes 4:15-16

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¹⁵I saw all the living who, moving about under the sun, follow that^[a] youth who replaced the king;^[b] ¹⁶there was no end to all those people whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.^[c]

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Ecclesiastes 4:15 Heb the second
Ecclesiastes 4:15 Heb him
Ecclesiastes 4:16 Or a feeding on wind. See Hos 12.1

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