11 He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the [a]world in their heart, yet cannot man find out the work that God hath wrought from the beginning even to the end.

12 I know that there is nothing good in them, but to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

13 And also that every man eateth and drinketh, and seeth the commodity of all his labor. This is the [b]gift of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:11 God hath given man a desire, and affection to seek out the things of this world, and to labor therein.
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:13 Read Eccl. 2:24, and these places declare that we should do all things with sobriety and in the fear of God, forasmuch as he giveth not his gifts to the intent that they should be abused.

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