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  "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 6:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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