Ecclesiastes 1:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I applied my mind to examine  and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven.  God has given people  this miserable task to keep them occupied.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the task that God has given the children of Adam to keep them occupied.

Genesis 3:19

You will eat bread  by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.’

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge,  madness and folly;  I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

1 Timothy 4:15

Practise these things; be committed to them, so that your progress may be evident to all.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

But beyond these, my son, be warned: there is no end to the making of many books,  and much study wearies the body.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom  and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one person has authority over another to his harm.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I saw that all labour and all skilful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.  ,

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy;  but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful;  even at night, his mind does not rest.  This too is futile.

Proverbs 23:26

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Proverbs 18:15

The mind of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it.

Proverbs 18:1

One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound wisdom.

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is supreme #– #so get wisdom. And whatever else you get, get understanding.

Job 28:3

A miner puts an end to the darkness; he probes  the deepest recesses for ore in the gloomy darkness.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything appropriate  in its time.  He has also put eternity in their hearts,  but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person without a companion,  without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.  ‘Who am I struggling for,’ he asks, ‘and depriving myself of good things? ’ This too is futile and a miserable task.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you don’t know the path of the wind, or how bones develop in   the womb of a pregnant woman, so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to investigate a matter.