Ecclesiastes 2:11

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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.

Then I looked {H6437} on all the works {H4639} that my hands {H3027} had wrought {H6213}, and on the labour {H5999} that I had laboured {H5998} to do {H6213}: and, behold, all was vanity {H1892} and vexation {H7469} of spirit {H7307}, and there was no profit {H3504} under the sun {H8121}.

Then I looked at all that my hands had accomplished and at the work I had toiled at; and I saw that it was all meaningless and feeding on wind, and that there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

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 a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
1 John 2:16

For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John 2:17

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Exodus 39:43

And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
Genesis 1:31

¶ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
1 Timothy 6:6

¶ But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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