Holy Scripture

Ecclesiastes 3:22

A church father on this verse
“"I therefore observed that there is nothing better for man than to be happy in what he is doing, for that is his lot. For who can enable him to see what will be after him? " Instead of that which we have as "to see what will be after him", Symmachus interprets it more clearly saying, "so that he sees those things whic…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Source: Septuagint

Original

22And I saw that there was no good, But that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works, For it is his portion, For who shall bring him to see anything of that which shall be after him?

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In context

20All go to one place; All were formed of the dust, And all will return to dust.

21And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, Whether it goes upward? And the spirit of the beast, Whether it goes downward to the earth?

— Ecclesiastes 3:22 —

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