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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.

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Genesis 24:27
And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

2 Chronicles 28:10
And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

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1 Samuel 2:3
Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.

1 Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.

1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

1 Samuel 2:8
Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.

1 Samuel 2:10
Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.

Job 5:11
Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

Job 5:12
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

Job 5:14
In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

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2 Samuel 13:12
And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing.

2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

2 Samuel 13:29
So Absalom's servants did to Amnon as Absalom had given them orders. Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got on his beast and went in flight.

Proverbs 18:7
The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

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Job 34:29
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Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

Proverbs 21:31
The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 7:13
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

Ecclesiastes 9:11
And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

Lamentations 3:37
Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

Lamentations 3:38
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

Ephesians 1:11
In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

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Job 18:13
His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

Job 18:14
He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

Psalms 49:8
(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

Psalms 49:9
So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

Psalms 49:11
The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

Psalms 49:12
But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Psalms 49:13
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

Psalms 49:14
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Psalms 49:15
But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

Psalms 89:48
What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

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.

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Psalms 14:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Psalms 30:6
When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved.

Psalms 30:7
Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.

Psalms 62:9
Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

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 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

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 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 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 12:9
And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.

Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

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?

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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.

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 5:10
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 7:15
These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

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.

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

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.

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1 Kings 9:19
And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

2 Chronicles 8:6
And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:25
Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

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?

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Psalms 10:6
He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

Psalms 27:8
When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

Psalms 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Psalms 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Psalms 62:10
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

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

Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Matthew 12:34
You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

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

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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 6:8
What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

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.

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.

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Job 21:26
Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

Proverbs 15:24
Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

Ecclesiastes 9:5
The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

Ecclesiastes 9:6
Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

Romans 5:14
But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.

1 Corinthians 15:55
O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?

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Isaiah 58:2
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

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Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

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Jeremiah 36:32
Then Jeremiah took another book, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who put down in it, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire by Jehoiakim, king of Judah: and in addition a number of other words of the same sort.

Jeremiah 45:1
The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,

Jeremiah 45:2
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:

Jeremiah 45:3
You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.

Jeremiah 45:4
This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

Jeremiah 45:5
And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.

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1 Kings 3:12
I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

2 Chronicles 1:10
Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours?

Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

1 Corinthians 3:20
And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

James 3:13
Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

James 3:15
This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

James 3:16
For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

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Hebrews 10:34
For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

Hebrews 10:36
For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

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2 Peter 2:5
And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;

2 Peter 2:6
And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

2 Peter 2:7
And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

2 Peter 2:8
(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):

2 Peter 2:9
The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

2 Peter 3:6
And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

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Psalms 73:13
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

Ecclesiastes 7:27
Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,

Jeremiah 12:1
You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Jeremiah 12:2
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

2 Peter 2:3
And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

2 Peter 3:3
Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

2 Peter 3:4
Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

2 Peter 3:5
But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

2 Peter 3:7
But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

2 Peter 3:8
But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

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