 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.  The North American Review - Page 1571880Full view - About this book
 | Ely Bates - Christian ethics - 1806 - 445 pages
...from any joy. And what was the result of all this toilsome forecast and provision ? Then, says he, / 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. From such a trial,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...ii. 4. I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards, See. to ver. 10. Ver. 11. 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... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 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 pf spirit, aud there was... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour; and this was my portion of all my labour. 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 WES vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was... | |
 | Thomas Fairfax (3rd baron.) - 1810 - 234 pages
...unto us ; but, unto thy name give we the praife. But, as for myfelf, and what I have done, I fay (with Solomon) I looked on all the works that my hands had...to do; and behold, All was vanity, and vexation of fpirit. For, there is no remembrance of the wife, more than the fool, Jor ever; feeing that which now... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Christian life - 1810 - 342 pages
...other devices. For a close, I wish, as once Chrysostom did, that that sentence, Eccl. ii 11. (' 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...Ver. 5. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that briugeth forth trees." Ver. 6. 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...' Then I looked on all the works that my hands lit.! wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there was 110 profit under llie bun." Ver. 1 1. ' I gat me men-singers and women singers, and the delights of... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...taken from the manner of dividing inheritances, Numb, xviii. 20; or spoils, 1 Sam. xxx. 24. 1 1 . 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 tt-ap... | |
 | William Playfair - 1814 - 538 pages
...the wisest of men—- " I made me great works I builded me houses — I planted me vineyards: 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... | |
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