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

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!

And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day the sixth.

and Moses seeth all the work, and lo, they have done it as Jehovah hath commanded; so they have done. And Moses doth bless them.

because all that is in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

Behold

And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.

What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment;

General references

Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?