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Ecclesiastes 1:13

And pI gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: qthis *sore *travail hath God given to the sons of man 3to be exercised therewith.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

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Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

Proverbs 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

Proverbs 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Ephesians 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

1 Kings 4:33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

Psalms 111:2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

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Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Ecclesiastes 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

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sore-very great or severe.

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travail-distress, trouble.

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Or, to afflict them.