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Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Above him. We are intent on things which regard us not, while we neglect the important concerns of heaven. Hebrew may be joined with the preceding. (Calmet) Protestants, (11.) "seeing there are many things which increase vanity, what is man the better? (12.) for who knoweth? "(Haydock) Some strive to obtain riches or honours, which will prove fatal to them. (Calmet) None can perfectly know the nature of things either present or future. (Worthington)
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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