Hello there, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day where I pray through the Bible verse by verse on this eighth day of October and the fall here in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Today we're in

Ecclesiastes chapter four, the whole chapter in the World English Bible, and this is what it

says. Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold the tears

of those who are oppressed and they had no

comforter and on the side of their oppressors there was power but they had no comforter therefore

I praised the dead who had been long dead more than the living who are yet alive yes better them

better than them both is him who has not yet been,

who has not yet seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Then I saw all the labor and

achievements that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This is also vanity and a striving after wind.

The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

Better is a handful with quietness than two handfuls with labor and chasing after the wind.

Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

There is one who is alone and he has neither son nor brother.

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