Ecclesiastes 5:15 meaning and explanation
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
Ecclesiastes 5:15, Berean Standard Bible
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The Teacher in Ecclesiastes is reflecting on what he has observed under the sun, and in the surrounding verses he has described wealth hoarded to its owner's harm and wealth lost in a failed venture. Here he states the plain fact of human arrival and departure: we enter the world with nothing and leave the same way, and no amount of labor can be carried out in our hands.
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