Ecclesiastes 1:13

Lighthouse Bible 2006

And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this hard toil has God given to the sons of man to be occupied with.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

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

Job 28:3

He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection, even to the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Psalm 111:2

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

Proverbs 18:1

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and involves himself with all 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 applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

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

Ecclesiastes 12:12

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: 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 toil grief; yea, his heart does not take 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 toil, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the toil which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied with it.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in his time: also he has put the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again, I considered all toil, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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 bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a hard toil.

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 to 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 profiting may appear to all.