 | 1849 - 1188 sidor
...world : " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on all the labor that I had labored to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun" — (2 : 11.) "il hated life." — The difference between Solomon and our worldlings is this : He succeeded... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 sidor
...works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclei. i. 13, 14. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. Eccles. ii. II, Therefore I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1832 - 416 sidor
...the joys of his mortality, came at last to this melancholy conclusion : " Then I looked," says he, "on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Would not all the felicities of this world become spiritless, if our hopes were confined alone to them,... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1832 - 326 sidor
...my labor. Then I looked on the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun. — Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. — Her ways are ways... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 sidor
...from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king ? even that which hath been already done. 13 Then... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1834 - 534 sidor
...all rny labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that rny hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Thus, the Bible presents a different view of this world from what we find anywhere else, although the... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - 1834 - 314 sidor
...courses. ''I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, And on the labor, that I had labored to do, and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun;" and at last he says, ''Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, Fear God and keep his commandments,... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder - 1834 - 204 sidor
...joy. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do ; and, behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." There was an adaptation in many of these things to impart a certain degree of blameless pleasure, and... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1835 - 364 sidor
...fruits, ver. 5. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees, ver. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun. ver. 11. I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments,... | |
 | 1835 - 1176 sidor
...from, any joy: for my heart rejoiced in all my labour ; and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1. them they had not circumcised. 6. For the children...forty years in the w ilderness, till all the people icas vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 12. And I turned myself... | |
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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 
