| David Marks - 1831 - 410 trang
...sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." And in the eleventh verse, he says: " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought — and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit." And though the Lord suffered the practice for a time,... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 trang
...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,...laboured to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. Eccles. ii. II, Therefore I hated life, because the... | |
| Hobart Caunter - 1832 - 416 trang
...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...to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Would not all the felicities of this world become spiritless,... | |
| Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 trang
...multiplication of the thoughts of the mind upon the subject propounded, so the scripture expresseth it, " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought;" and in the next verse, " I returned to see," Eccl. 2:11,12. He looked upon, and considered his works, and... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 trang
...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,...to do: and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. %12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness,... | |
| William James - 1988 - 1410 trang
...allencompassing blackness: — "What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the Sun? I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts;... | |
| Laurence Bergreen - 1996 - 706 trang
...delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. So I was great. . . . 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... | |
| George Boas - 1997 - 244 trang
...from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor : and this was my portion of all my labor. 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... | |
| Rilla Askew - 1998 - 460 trang
...peculiar treasure of kings of the provinces! and whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them! Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and behold! all was vanity and vexation of spirit! and there was no profit under the sun'! You hear that?... | |
| 1999 - 68 trang
...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,...to do, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. "And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness,... | |
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