Ecclesiastes 1:13

English Standard Version 2016

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

1 Timothy 4:15

Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.

Proverbs 23:26

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

Proverbs 18:15

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 18:1

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.

Proverbs 4:7

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

Psalm 111:2

Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.

Job 28:3

Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.