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Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Genesis 3:18
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Job 5:6
For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Job 5:7
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Psalms 78:33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Psalms 90:3
You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

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Exodus 17:14
Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

Luke 17:24
for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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Leviticus 10:16
Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,

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Numbers 14:36
The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

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Numbers 14:38
But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

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Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,

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Judges 19:16
Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Psalms 104:23
Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

Psalms 128:2
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Proverbs 24:27
Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

Ecclesiastes 5:3
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,

1 Thessalonians 4:12
that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

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1 Kings 3:28
All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

1 Kings 4:29
God gave Solomon abundant wisdom, understanding, and breadth of mind like the sand that is on the seashore.

1 Kings 4:32
He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered one thousand five.

1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

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2 Chronicles 11:16
After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

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Psalms 78:49
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

Proverbs 6:24
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

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Psalms 111:2
Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Proverbs 1:2
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

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

1 Thessalonians 5:21
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

1 Timothy 4:15
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

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Proverbs 10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

Proverbs 11:29
He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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Proverbs 30:1
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the revelation: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:

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Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20
Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

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Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

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 8:17
then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

Ecclesiastes 11:5
As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

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Ecclesiastes 3:13
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

Ecclesiastes 3:22
Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

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 5:19
Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

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

Ecclesiastes 6:2
a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 12:5
yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:8
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”

Ecclesiastes 12:12
Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

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Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24:6
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Romans 8:21
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

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Hosea 8:12
I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

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Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Luke 16:8
“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

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Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

Psalms 119:45
I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Psalms 119:94
I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

Psalms 119:148
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

Psalms 119:162
I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

John 5:39
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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