Ecclesiastes 1:13

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Summary

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

I gave

This sore

General references

Ecclesiastes 3:10

Bible References

I gave

And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is like grasping the wind.

I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure in them.

So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.

A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may appear to all.

This sore

I have seen the task, which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied in it.

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

And further, my son, be admonished by these: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.

General references

I have seen the task, which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied in it.