Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 1:15; Ecclesiastes 1:17

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Ecclesiastes 1:3

3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 1:13

13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!
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Ecclesiastes 1:15

15 What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
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Ecclesiastes 1:17

17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
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