 | John Jewel (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1848 - 92 pages
...The world passeth away, and the lust thereof." The wise man saith : " I have con- Eccies. i. sidered all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." Again : " Great travail is created for all men, and Eccim. xi. an heavy yoke upon the sons of Adam,... | |
 | John Jewel - Apologetics - 1848 - 476 pages
...away, and the lust thereof.'" The wise man saith : " I have considered all the works that Ecciw. 1. 14. are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." Again : " Great travail is created for all men, andEcciun. ii.i. an heavy yoke upon the sons of Adam,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Commonplace books - 1849 - 650 pages
...diseases to which the careless and unthinking seldom are obnoxious. Eccles. i. 13, 14, 15. / have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; that which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered."—TIMOTHY... | |
 | William Archer Butler, Thomas Woodward - Sermons, English - 1849 - 654 pages
...is the voice not of Jewish, but of human, nature) : " Vanity of vanities, all is vanity I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit !" Do we deny, then, that, considered in themselves, these records of the Old Testament are imperfect,... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. » I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 14 That which is crooked cannot be made straight ; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. '•... | |
 | Gleanings - Bible - 1849 - 232 pages
..." Time flies fast, but conscience should keep pace with it."—ADAM. JULY 26. " I have seen all tbe works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit."—Ecclcs. i. 14. "Think how little the world can do for you, and what it doth, how deceitfully—what... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 614 pages
...as an obscrver.when you notice the abundance of passages like the following (i. 14 — "I have BEEN all the works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity." (iii; 16) — "I SAW under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there, and the place... | |
 | Bibles - 1999 - 68 pages
...heaven; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. 16... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 2000 - 514 pages
...heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes -v> DEREK MAHON God, you could grow to love it, God-fearing, Godchosen purist little puritan... | |
 | Pierre Bayle - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 444 pages
...author of the Book of Solomon, can hold me more firmly to the following great maxim: v=ww / have seen all the works that are done under the sun AND BEHOLD ALL is VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT"™ . . . I would have ended with this fine moral precept when I realised that I had omitted to say that... | |
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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 
