 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pagine
...heart 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,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after... | |
 | Frédéric Richaud - 2000 - 140 pagine
...kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees . . . Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." The gardener had disappeared again. But no one who worked in the garden was worried: he was probably... | |
 | Anthony B. McMillan - 2001 - 134 pagine
...all the works that my hand had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, ail was vanity and vexation of spirit and there was no profit under the sun. (v.ll) The end result of rnaxing out in pleasures and niceties eventually end in vanity says the wealthy... | |
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 pagine
...vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. WICKED The wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted "For the froward... | |
 | Joseph Charles Philpot - 2002 - 100 pagine
...any joy;" for he "looked on all the works that" his "hands had wrought, and on the labour that" he "had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun" (see Ecclesiastes 2. 5, 8, 10, 11). He has thus set up a beacon that we might, with God's blessing,... | |
 | Niral Russell Burnett - 2002 - 174 pagine
...from any joy; 122 for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was the 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 no... | |
 | Melvin E. Dieter, Hallie A Dieter - 2003 - 266 pagine
...to the welfare and happiness of ME, At the end, in reviewing it all, he was forced to declare that "all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun" (2:11). A little exercise of common sense would show us that this must be the inevitable result of... | |
 | Jennifer Michael Hecht - 2010 - 578 pagine
...meaninglessness, extending from a dismissal of material accomplishments to a dismissal of even wisdom and truth. "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Koheleth began to see even wisdom as a kind of useless strife and competition: "Then said I in my heart,... | |
 | Dwight Nichols - 2004 - 346 pagine
...By communing with his heart, Solomon realized that his accumulation of material things was vanity: "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had...and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit." The tribulations from the false ego-self are anxiety, worry, resentment, jealousy, depression and loneliness.... | |
 | Gregory Claeys - 2005 - 496 pagine
...wise kings of Israel, "I looked on all the works and on all the labour, [of the competitive world,] and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was NO PROFIT under the sun." But we will look farther, thirdly, into the beneficial effects of a superior system, in reference to... | |
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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. 
