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Ecclesiastes 5:18

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it is good and comely: Heb. there is a good which is comely, etc. Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 3:12-13, Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 8:15, Ecclesiastes 9:7, Ecclesiastes 11:9; 1 Timothy 6:17

the days: Heb. the number of the days

it is his: Ecclesiastes 2:10, Ecclesiastes 3:22; Jeremiah 52:34

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