World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 4:16
“There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 4
14
For out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
15
I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
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There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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