“But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.”
The statement that as a person comes naked from the womb, so they return naked, gaining nothing from their toil to take with them, connects with the theme of mortality first introduced in 3:19-20. The image of nakedness—vulnerability, emptiness of possessions—frames human existence as fundamentally unchanged by all the accumulation undertaken in the interim. This verse suggests a kind of cosmic indifference to human achievement; the universe strips away all attachments at death.
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