Ecclesiastes 1:13 - Y'all Version Bible

¹³ I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And I applied myself by heart and mind to seek and search out by [human] wisdom all human activity under heaven. It is a miserable business which God has given to the sons of man with which to busy themselves.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Common English Bible

¹³ I applied my mind to investigate and to explore by wisdom all that happens under heaven. It’s an unhappy obsession that God has given to human beings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And I was determined in my mind to seek and to investigate wisely, concerning all that is done under the sun. God has given this very difficult task to the sons of men, so that they may be occupied by it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ 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.

Ecclesiastes 1:13 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:19

You will eat bread by the sweat of your nostrils until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Job 28:3

Mortals put an end to darkness, and search out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Psalm 111:2

YHWH’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Proverbs 18:1

A person isolates themselves for selfish desires, and rejects all sound judgment.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 23:26

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Proverbs 25:2

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

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

Furthermore, my son, be warned: of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearying to the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who pleases ʜɪᴍ, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner ʜᴇ gives the task of gathering and accumulating, so that ʜᴇ may give to someone who pleases God. This also is emptiness and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Hᴇ has made everything beautiful in its time. Hᴇ has set eternity in their hearts, but no one can find out the work that God has done from the beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw all the labor and achievement come from the envy of a one’s neighbor. This also is emptiness and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is emptiness. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

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

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which a person has power over another to their own hurt.

1 Timothy 4:15

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, so that your progress may be revealed to all.