For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
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Interpretation
A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other his possessions come to strangers; this is vanity, and an evil disease.
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This thought runs through Ecclesiastes 6:3-5.