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Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
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Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
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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.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
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),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.
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Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Proverbs 2:2-4
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
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Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
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Psalms 111:2
Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
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Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
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Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
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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.
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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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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.
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Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.