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Ecclesiastes 2:22
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Ecclesiastes 2:22
22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
22*For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart wherein hee hath laboured vnder the Sunne?
- Chap.1.3. and 3.9.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 2:22
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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Trouble, distress, irritation, or that which wearies and afflicts the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
In which; in what thing, place, time, or respect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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Open the full verse study2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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Open the full verse study7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
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Open the full verse study8And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
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Open the full verse study9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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Open the full verse study6Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Open the full verse study6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
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Open the full verse study8There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
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Open the full verse study10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
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Open the full verse study17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
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Open the full verse study7All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
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Open the full verse study15Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
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Open the full verse study26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Open the full verse study11Give us this day our daily bread.
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Open the full verse study22¶ And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
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Open the full verse study29And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
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Open the full verse study25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
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Open the full verse study26He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
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