Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
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Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
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Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
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Genesis 31:40
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
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Psalms 16:10
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
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Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Matthew 6:31
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Matthew 13:7
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Matthew 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Luke 10:40
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”
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Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
Ecclesiastes 9:13
I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
Ecclesiastes 9:14
There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
Ecclesiastes 9:16
Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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