Ecclesiastes 1:13

King James 2000

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this severe burden has God given to the sons of man to be afflicted with.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.

Job 28:3

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out all recesses for ore in darkness, and the shadow of death.

Psalm 111:2

The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure in them.

Proverbs 18:1

A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 23:26

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

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is like grasping the wind.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you know not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so you know not the works of God who makes all.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

And further, my son, be admonished by these: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the task, which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied in it.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men’s hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

1 Timothy 4:15

Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may appear to all.