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Ecclesiastes 1:13

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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.

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The surrounding passage

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:11

    There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

  2. Ecclesiastes 1:12

    I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

  3. Ecclesiastes 1:14

    I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  4. Ecclesiastes 1:15

    That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.