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Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

Genesis 3:18
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

Genesis 5:29
And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

Job 5:6
For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

Job 5:7
But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

Job 14:1
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Psalms 78:33
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

Psalms 90:3
You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

Psalms 127:2
It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

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Exodus 17:14
And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.

Luke 17:24
For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.

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Leviticus 10:16
And Moses was looking for the goat of the sin-offering, but it was burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, who were still living, saying,

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Numbers 14:36
And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,

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Numbers 14:38
But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched by disease.

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Deuteronomy 13:14
Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

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Judges 19:16
Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Psalms 104:23
Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

Psalms 128:2
You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

Proverbs 13:11
Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

Proverbs 24:27
Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

Ecclesiastes 5:3
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.

Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

1 Thessalonians 4:12
That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

2 Thessalonians 3:8
And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

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1 Kings 3:28
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.

1 Kings 4:29
And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

1 Kings 4:32
He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.

1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

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2 Chronicles 11:16
And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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Psalms 78:49
He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.

Proverbs 6:24
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

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Psalms 111:2
The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them.

Proverbs 1:2
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

Proverbs 2:2
So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

Proverbs 2:3
Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

Proverbs 2:5
Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

Proverbs 4:7
The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

Proverbs 17:16
How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

1 Thessalonians 5:21
Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;

1 Timothy 4:15
Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

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Proverbs 10:25
When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.

Proverbs 11:29
The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

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Proverbs 30:1
The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:

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Ecclesiastes 2:2
Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20
So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:8
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

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Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 7:24
Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.

Ecclesiastes 11:5
As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

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Ecclesiastes 3:13
And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:18
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

Ecclesiastes 5:19
Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

Ecclesiastes 6:1
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

Ecclesiastes 12:5
And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:8
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 12:12
And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.

Ecclesiastes 12:14
God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

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Isaiah 24:5
The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

Isaiah 24:6
For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

Romans 8:20
For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

Romans 8:21
That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

Romans 8:22
For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

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Hosea 8:12
Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

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Isaiah 55:2
Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Habakkuk 2:13
See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

Matthew 6:33
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

Luke 16:8
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

Ephesians 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

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Psalms 119:19
I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Psalms 119:45
So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

Psalms 119:71
It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.

Psalms 119:94
I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.

Psalms 119:148
In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

Psalms 119:162
I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.

John 5:39
You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

Ephesians 5:17
For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

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