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Ecclesiastes 5:8-17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Section 7. Perils to which one is exposed in a despotic state, and the unprofitableness of riches.

In political life there is little that is satisfactory; yet one must not surrender one's belief in a superintending Providence.

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