Ecclesiastes 1:13

The Scriptures 1998

And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that has been done under the heavens; this evil task Elohim has given to the sons of man, to be humbled by it.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

“By the sweat of your face you are to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you return.”

Job 28:3

An end to darkness he has set, and to every limit he is searching, to rocks in deepest darkness.

Psalm 111:2

Great are the works of יהוה, Searched for by all who delight in them.

Proverbs 18:1

The separatist seeks his own desire; He breaks out against all sound wisdom.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the understanding one gets knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 23:26

My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes watch my ways.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the esteem of Elohim to hide a matter, And the esteem of sovereigns to search out a matter.

Proverbs 4:7

“The beginning of wisdom is: 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 know that this too is feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so you do not know the works of Elohim who makes all.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

And besides these, my son, be warned – the making of many books has no end, and much study is a wearying of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sufferings, and his work grievous; even in the night his heart takes no rest. That too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His eyes. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give to him who is good before Elohim. That too is futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the task Elohim has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made it all, pretty in its time. Even the ages He has put in their hearts, except that no one finds out the work that Elohim does from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I saw that all the toil and skill of the work bring envy between man and his neighbour. That too is futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen; I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil.

1 Timothy 4:15

Practise these matters, be in them, so that your progress might be plain to all.