| 1839 - 496 pages
...fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the young trees ; I got me servants," etc. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." There is, however, it must be allowed, occasionally to be found a man of an indolent and pleasure-loving... | |
| 1839 - 444 pages
...which has long since vanished, leaving this as a monument, not of its greatness, but of its decay. " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit. Then I 1839.] CULTIVATION OF STRAWBERRIES. 389 saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth... | |
| William Merry - 1839 - 112 pages
...kept not from them, and 1 withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, ALL JVAS VANITY and vexation of spirit, and there teas no profit under the sun.' * Can the force of words... | |
| Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then 1 ts. 15 They cried unto them, Depart c vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 12 f And I turned myself to... | |
| Great Britain - 1840 - 452 pages
...delights of the sons of men, musical instruments and that of all sorts ; then I looked on the labour I had laboured to do, and behold all was vanity and...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun" (Eccles. ii. 8 — 11). The earliest instance in which we find music connected with Christianity is... | |
| Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...labor. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of...turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. 13 Then... | |
| Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 370 pages
...VIEW 233 1 . From Ecclesiastes, King James Version and The Living Bible translation, Chapters 1-3 234 "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." "But as I looked at everything I had tried, it was all so useless, a chasing of the wind, and there... | |
| Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 2 A4D vaniThe fool and the wise must die ty and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.... | |
| Anthony Trollope - Fiction - 1990 - 208 pages
...make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord." — Isaiah 51:3. 39:25. "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." — Ecclesiastes 2:11. 40:2. "[Joshua] said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon.... | |
| Laurence Bergreen - Music - 1996 - 706 pages
.... . . Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labor that I had labored to do: and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Such were the sentiments with which Clarence, in his last bitter years, had become familiar. Where... | |
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