“For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.