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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ecclesiastes 6:3

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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6:3-6 a hundred children and . . . be very old: Such honors as virility and old age amount to nothing if life is not enjoyable or does not end well (a decent burial). The darkness of being born dead is preferable to a discontented life.
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