Ecclesiastes 1:13

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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.

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  • Eccl 3:10 : 10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
  • Eccl 1:17 : 17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
  • Eccl 7:25 : 25 I applied mine 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:
  • Eccl 8:16-17 : 16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) 17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: bause though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
  • Eccl 12:12 : 12 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.
  • 1 Tim 4:15 : 15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
  • Eccl 8:9 : 9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
  • Ps 111:2 : 2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
  • Prov 2:2-4 : 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
  • Prov 4:7 : 7 Wisdom is the incipal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
  • Prov 18:1 : 1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
  • Prov 18:15 : 15 The heart of the udent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
  • Prov 23:26 : 26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
  • Eccl 2:23 : 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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  • Eccl 1:14-18
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    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

    16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

    18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

  • Eccl 2:17-26
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    17Therefore I hated life; bause the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: bause I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

    19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

    20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

    21For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

    22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

    24There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

    25For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

    26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:9-13
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    9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

    10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

    11Then 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.

    12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

    13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I applied mine 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:

  • Eccl 3:9-12
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    9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

    10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

    11He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

    12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

    17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: bause though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 2:3-4
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    3I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

    4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

  • Eccl 1:12
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    12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

  • Eccl 1:1-3
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    1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

    2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

    3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

  • Eccl 2:15
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    15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all this I considered in my heart even to dlare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

  • Eccl 2:1
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    1I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

  • Eccl 4:4
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    4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 3:18
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    18I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • Eccl 7:23
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    23All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

  • Eccl 7:27
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    27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

  • Eccl 1:9
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    9The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

  • Eccl 9:10
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    10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.