Ecclesiastes 1:13

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,

1 Timothy 4:15

Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

More than these, my son, require not. Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?

Proverbs 23:26

My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

Proverbs 18:15

A wise heart shall acquire knowledge: and the ear of the wise seeketh instruction.

Proverbs 18:1

He that hath a mind to depart from a friend seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach.

Proverbs 4:7

The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

Psalm 111:2

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

Job 28:3

He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth: the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search out the speech.