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This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Ceci est un mal parmi tout ce qui se fait sous le soleil, c'est qu'il y a pour tous un même sort; aussi le coeur des fils de l'homme est-il plein de méchanceté, et la folie est dans leur coeur pendant leur vie; après quoi, ils vont chez les morts. Car, qui est excepté?

KJV

This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 133 (Migne)

    Hoc est, ait, pessimum inter omnia quae sub coelo sunt, quia eadem cunctis eveniunt justo et impio (Eccl. IX, 3) , etc. Unde et corda filiorum hominum replentur malitia et contemptu. Scit enim diabolus hunc ordinem rerum, quod videlicet quidam per afflictiones pervenire soleant,…

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