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Ecclesiastes 8:16 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 8 · verse 16 · King James Version
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)Ecclesiastes 8:16 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 8:16 in context
14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
15Then 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.
16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Key words (Strong's)
- businessʻinyânadoH6045 →
- appliednâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- nightlayilproperly, a twistH3915 →
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