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 give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;

I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

Great are the works of Jehovah, Sought out by all desiring them.

To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,

The first thing is wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.

For an object of desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

This sore

I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And further, from these, my son, be warned; the making of many books hath no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

General references

I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.