For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pleased God, though he may not be his relation, Proverbs xxvi. 16., and Job xiii. 22. (Calmet)