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Ecclesiastes 8:17 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 8 · verse 17 · King James Version
Then 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.Ecclesiastes 8:17 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 8:17 in context
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)
- beheldrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- cannotyâkôlto be able, literally or morallyH3201 →
- thoughshelon account of, whatsoever, whichsoeverH7945 →
- labourʻâmalto toilH5998 →
- workmaʻăsehan actionH4639 →
- doneʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
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