Ecclesiastes 1:13

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Related verses

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• Ecclesiastes 3:10
  I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
• Genesis 3:19
  By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
• 1 Timothy 4:15
  Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
• Ecclesiastes 8:16–17
  When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
• Ecclesiastes 1:17
  So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
• Ecclesiastes 12:12
  And by these, my son, be further warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.
• Ecclesiastes 7:25
  I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
• Ecclesiastes 8:9
  All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
• Proverbs 18:1
  He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.
• Psalm 111:2
  Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
• Proverbs 2:2–4
  …if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
• Ecclesiastes 2:26
  To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Glossary

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Adam (Person)· Book of Ecclesiastes· Futility

Topics

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Instruction: from Nature· Investigation: General Scriptures Concerning· Science: Observations of, and Deductions From, Facts