vexation

The LORD shall send vpon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand vnto, for to doe, vntill thou be destroyed, and vntill thou perish quickely, because of the wickednesse of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

1611 marginal noteHeb. which thou wouldest doe.

I haue seene all the workes that are done vnder the Sunne, and behold, all is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.

And I gaue my heart to know wisedome, and to know madnesse and folly: I perceiued that this also is vexation of spirit.

1611 marginal noteCha.2.12. and 7.23.

Then I looked on all the workes that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to doe: and behold, all was vanitie, and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit vnder the Sunne.

1611 marginal noteChap.1.3.

Therefore I hated life, because the worke that is wrought vnder the Sunne is grieuous vnto mee: for all is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart wherein hee hath laboured vnder the Sunne?

1611 marginal noteChap.1.3. and 3.9.

For God giueth to a man that is good in his sight, wisedome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner hee giueth traueile, to gather and to heape vp that he may giue to him that is good before God: This also is vanitie and vexation of spirit.

1611 marginal noteHebr. before him.

1611 marginal noteIob 27.17.

¶ Againe I considered all trauaile, and euery right worke, that for this a man is enuied of his neighbour: this is also vanitie, and vexation of spirit.

1611 marginal noteHeb. all the rightnes of worke.

1611 marginal noteHeb. this is the enuie of a man from his neighbour.

Better is an handfull with quietnesse, then both the hands full with trauell and vexation of spirit.

1611 marginal noteProu. 15.16. and 16.18.

There is no end of all the people, euen of all that haue beene before them: they also that come after, shall not reioyce in him: surely this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.