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 gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

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 to every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

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

So that thou incline thy ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding;

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

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

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

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

This sore

I have seen the labor, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou shalt return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return.

General references

I have seen the labor, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.