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Ecclesiastes 1:13-15
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Ecclesiastes 1:13-15
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
13 And 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 the sons of men to be busy with. 14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.[a]
15 What is crooked cannot be made straight,
and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 Or a feeding on wind. See Hos 12.1
Ecclesiastes 1:13-15
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 1:13-15
New International Version
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) 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(C)
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(D)
what is lacking cannot be counted.
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