Ecclesiastes 2:11

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Summary

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

I looked

Behold

General references

Proverbs 14:13

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Ecclesiastes 3:9

Bible References

I looked

Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.

And God beheld all that he had made, and lo they were exceeding good: and so of the evening and morning was made the sixth day.

And Moses beheld all the work, and see, they had done it even as the LORD commanded: and then Moses blessed them.

For all that is in the world - as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of goods - are not of the father: but of the world.

Behold

Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind:

For what else hath a man, of all the labor that he taketh under the Sun?

Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?

Godliness is great riches, if a man be content with that he hath.

General references

The heart is sorrowful even in laughter; and the end of mirth is heaviness.

All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.

What else hath a man that doth anything, but weariness and labour?