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Whether it ascends ? 

 Or the spirit of the beast, 

 Whether it descends below into the earth ? 

 23 A.nd I saw that there is no good for man 

 But that he should rejoice in his works, 

 Because this is his portion : 

 For who shall bring him to see 

 In what it shall consist after him ? 



* Then I turned, and beheld all the oppressions. 

 That are done under the sun. 

 And, behold, the tears of the oppressed. 

 And there is no one comforting them : 

 And in the hand of those oppressing there is power. 

 But there is no one comforting them. 



2 And I praised the dead wlio are already dead 

 IMore than the living who are yet alive. 



3 Yea good above these two 

 Is he who has not yet been, 



Who hath not seen all that is done. 

 The evil done under the sun. 



4 And I beheld all the labor, 



And all the manliness of the doing, 



That this is envy of a man from his fellow. 



This indeed is perplexity and grasping of wind. 



TYRIAN. 



5 The fool folded his hands 

 And ate his own flesh. 



6 Better is a handful of rest 



Thau two haudtuls of labor and grasping of wind. 



SOLOMON. 



7 And I returned, and saw perplexity under the sun. 



8 There is one, and there is not a second : 

 For there is neither son nor brother to him : 

 And there is no end to all his labor : 



For his eye is not sated with wealth. 



And for whom do I labor : 



And deprive my life from goodness ? 



This at least is perplexity, and an evil struggle. 



TYRIAN. 



9 Two are better than one : 



To them is a good reward in their labor : 



