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Eccl.1.13

Ecclesiastes 1:13

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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.

With Wisdom Comes Sorrow

Cross References

Job 28:3
KJV
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

Job Tells of Earth’s Treasures
Ecclesiastes 1:17
KJV
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

With Wisdom Comes Sorrow

Ecclesiastes 2:23
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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

The Futility of Work

Ecclesiastes 2:26
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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.

The Futility of Work

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

God’s Works Remain Forever

Ecclesiastes 3:11
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He 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.

God’s Works Remain Forever

Ecclesiastes 4:8
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There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

The Evil of Oppression

Ecclesiastes 7:25
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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:

The Limits of Human Wisdom

Ecclesiastes 8:16
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¶ 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:)

God’s Ways Are Mysterious

Ecclesiastes 8:17
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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.

God’s Ways Are Mysterious

Ecclesiastes 11:5
KJV
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

Cast Your Bread upon the Waters