good with an inheritance: or, as good as an inheritance, yea, better too. Ecclesiastes 9:15-18; 1 Kings 3:6-9; Luke 16:8-9; 1 Timothy 6:17-19
them: Ecclesiastes 11:7
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Ecclesiastes 7:11
Ecclesiastes 7:11
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