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Ecclesiastes 2:21
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

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Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

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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.

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Genesis 37:11
And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.

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1 Samuel 7:17
And his base was at Ramah, where his house was; there he was judge of Israel and there he made an altar to the Lord.

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2 Samuel 9:7
And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.

2 Samuel 9:8
And he went down on his face before the king, and said, What is your servant, for you to take note of a dead dog such as I am?

2 Samuel 9:9
Then the king sent for Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, All the property of Saul and of his family I have given to your master's son.

2 Samuel 9:10
And you and your sons and your servants are to take care of the land for him, and get in the fruit of it, so that your master's son may have food: but Mephibosheth, your master's son, will have a place at my table at all times. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Daniel 2:48
Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.

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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.

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2 Chronicles 31:20
This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 31:21
And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

2 Chronicles 33:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:3
For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

2 Chronicles 33:4
And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

2 Chronicles 33:5
And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:6
More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

2 Chronicles 33:7
And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

2 Chronicles 33:8
And never again will I let the feet of Israel be moved out of the land which I have given to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, even all the law and the orders and the rules given to them by Moses.

2 Chronicles 33:9
And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 34:2
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

2 Chronicles 35:18
No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:5
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 36:6
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:7
And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.

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2 Chronicles 36:8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the disgusting things he did, and all there is to be said against him, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 36:10
In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.

Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

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Job 9:27
If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

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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.

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

Isaiah 53:9
And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.

Jeremiah 49:16
...the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

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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.

Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

Proverbs 15:16
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

Proverbs 23:5
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

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.

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.

Luke 12:17
And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

1 Timothy 6:8
But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.

1 Timothy 6:9
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

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Esther 5:11
And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.

Esther 8:1
That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.

Esther 8:5
And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:

Psalms 17:14
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

Psalms 37:34
Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.

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 49:18
Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,

Psalms 49:19
He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

Psalms 52:5
But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

Psalms 52:6
The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

Psalms 52:7
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

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.

Proverbs 13:22
The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

Proverbs 27:24
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

Daniel 5:28
Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

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

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

Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

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 8:15
So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

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 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

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.

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Ecclesiastes 4:5
The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.

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Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.

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Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

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 4:7
Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

Ecclesiastes 6:9
What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.

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

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?

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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Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

Isaiah 2:13
And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;

Isaiah 2:14
And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;

Isaiah 2:15
And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

Isaiah 2:16
And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.

Isaiah 2:17
And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

Isaiah 23:9
It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

Isaiah 28:1
Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!

Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

Amos 1:8
Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.

Zephaniah 2:10
This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

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Jeremiah 9:5
Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

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Jeremiah 9:6
There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

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Jonah 4:10
And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;

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Zechariah 9:6
And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.

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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.

1 Peter 5:7
Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.

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Psalms 89:47
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

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

Romans 5:12
For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

Romans 5:13
Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

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.

Hebrews 9:27
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

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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:

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

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Colossians 1:24
Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

Colossians 2:3
In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

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Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

Proverbs 23:16
And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

Proverbs 23:24
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

Proverbs 23:25
Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

Proverbs 27:11
My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

Philemon 1:7
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

Philemon 1:19
I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.

Philemon 1:20
So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.

2 John 1:4
It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

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