Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
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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 4:19
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
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 7:7
O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
Job 14:3
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
Psalms 78:33
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
Psalms 89:47
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
Psalms 90:10
The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.
Isaiah 26:18
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.
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Genesis 37:4
And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.
Genesis 37:11
And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.
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Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.
Genesis 42:38
And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.
Genesis 44:29
If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.
Genesis 44:31
When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.
1 Kings 2:6
So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.
Psalms 71:18
Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.
Isaiah 38:10
I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
Isaiah 46:4
Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.
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Ruth 4:6
And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.
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1 Kings 4:30
And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings 4:31
For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.
1 Kings 4:32
He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
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Ezra 5:17
So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.
Ezra 7:18
And whatever seems right to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, that do, as may be pleasing to your God.
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1 Kings 21:4
So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.
1 Kings 21:5
But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food?
1 Kings 21:6
And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.
Esther 5:13
But all this is nothing to me while I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's doorway.
Job 15:20
The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
Job 18:4
But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
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Job 29:2
If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!
Psalms 6:6
The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
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Psalms 37:3
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Haggai 2:19
Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.
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Proverbs 12:8
A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.
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Proverbs 22:15
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
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Proverbs 27:16
He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
Jeremiah 5:13
And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.
Micah 2:11
If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
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 2:10
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.
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 2:19
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
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 8:9
All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Luke 12:21
So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
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Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.
Hosea 8:7
For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
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Job 34:29
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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 8:21
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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Psalms 55:6
And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
Psalms 55:7
I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)
Psalms 55:8
I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.
Psalms 55:9
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Psalms 55:10
By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
Psalms 55:11
Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
Jeremiah 9:2
If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
Jeremiah 9:3
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
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Ezekiel 3:14
And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.
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1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.
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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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Luke 10:40
But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help.
Luke 10:41
But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:
Luke 10:42
Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.
Luke 12:29
And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
John 6:15
Now when Jesus saw that the people were about to come and take him by force to make him a king, he went away again up the mountain by himself.
John 17:16
They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
Philippians 4:11
But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.
Philippians 4:12
It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.
1 Timothy 6:6
But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
Hebrews 2:8
You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.
1 Peter 5:7
Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.
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Exodus 39:43
Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.
Proverbs 10:25
When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.
1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
1 John 2:17
And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
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