Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
Authorized (King James) Version
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 further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
American Standard Version
16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the [a]business that is done upon the earth [b](for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), 17 then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:16 Or, travail
- Ecclesiastes 8:16 Or, how that neither by day nor by night do men see sleep with their eyes
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