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Ecclesiastes 1:13
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13 I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with.(A)

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Listen to Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 3:10, Genesis 3:19, Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 8:16-17, Ecclesiastes 7:25, 1 Timothy 4:15, Ecclesiastes 12:12, Ecclesiastes 8:9
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
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13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.(A) What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!(B)

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Listen to Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 3:10, Genesis 3:19, Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 8:16-17, Ecclesiastes 7:25, 1 Timothy 4:15, Ecclesiastes 12:12, Ecclesiastes 8:9
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
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13 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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Ecclesiastes 3:10
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10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.(A)

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Ecclesiastes 3:10
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10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(A)

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Ecclesiastes 3:10
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10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

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Genesis 3:19
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19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”(A)

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Genesis 3:19
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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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Genesis 3:19
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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.

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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.(A)

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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom,(A) and also of madness and folly,(B) but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

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Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
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16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night, 17 then I saw all the work of God, that no one can find out what is happening under the sun. However much they may toil in seeking, they will not find it out; even though those who are wise claim to know, they cannot find it out.(A)

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Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
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16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom(A) and to observe the labor that is done on earth(B)—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done.(C) No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.(D)

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Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
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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: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

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Ecclesiastes 7:25
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25 I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.(A)

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Ecclesiastes 7:25
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25 So I turned my mind to understand,
    to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(A)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
    and the madness of folly.(B)

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Ecclesiastes 7:25
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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:

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1 Timothy 4:15
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15 Put these things into practice, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.

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1 Timothy 4:15
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15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.

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1 Timothy 4:15
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15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

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Ecclesiastes 12:12
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12 Of anything beyond these, my child, beware. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

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Ecclesiastes 12:12
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12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.(A)

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Ecclesiastes 12:12
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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.

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Ecclesiastes 8:9
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9 All this I observed, applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while one person exercises authority over another to the other’s hurt.(A)

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Ecclesiastes 8:9
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9 All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own[a] hurt.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 8:9 Or to their
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Ecclesiastes 8:9
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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.

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