15 In my (A)vain[a] life I have seen everything. There is (B)a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who (C)prolongs his life in his evildoing.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:15 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)

20 No more shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for (A)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and (B)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

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