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Job 7:2

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

But now, of what profit and advantage is all this labour man takes under the sun, towards his happiness in the world above the sun? that glory and felicity, which lies in super celestial places in Christ Jesus?

none at all. Or, "what remains of all his labour?" as it may be rendered; that is, after death: so the Targum,"what is there remains to a man after he is dead, of all his labour which he laboured under the sun in this world?'

'nothing at all.

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