Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of men to toil in.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;
Psalm 111:2
Great are the works of Jehovah; sought out of all that delight in them.
Proverbs 2:2-4
so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and thou apply thy heart to understanding;
Proverbs 4:7
The beginning of wisdom is, Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
Proverbs 18:1
He that separateth himself seeketh his pleasure, he is vehement against all sound wisdom.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of an intelligent man getteth knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.
Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),
Ecclesiastes 12:12
And besides, my son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
1 Timothy 4:15
Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.