 | 1815 - 974 pages
...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, and on the labour that I had laboured to dp : and, behoH, ull taai vanity and vexation of fpirit, and there -was no profit under the fun. It... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 448 pages
...ver. 5. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees, ver. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun, ver. 11. * I gat me men-singers, and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel...Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they under the sun. 12 And 1 turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly : for what can the man... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...And whatsoever mine eyes desired, I kept not from them ; I withheld not mine heart from any joy. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...to do ; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spiritd. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...the wood that bringeth forth trees." — Ver. 6. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands bad od? Who for thy table feeils the wanton fawn, For...flowery lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sin under the Sun."— Ver. 11. " I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 364 pages
...made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." — Ver. 6. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there was no profit under the Sun."— Ver. \ 1. " I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons... | |
 | Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin) - Children - 1821 - 246 pages
...like him, I got me servants and maidens, and I had silver and gold in abundance : but " when I had looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do, behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun ! — therefore... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...Ver. 5. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bnngeth forth trees. Ver. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. Ver. 11. I gat me men-singers, and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1858 - 1194 pages
...the rainbow ; but they are dispersed by the lightest breeze. " I looked," says the royal Preacher, " on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." We thirst to quaff not only a pure and crystal stream of bliss, but an ever-running... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...this was my portion, the only thing that accrued to me, of all my labour, 1 l*that I looked and mused on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do in expectation of obtaining happiness from luxury and selfindulgence; and, behold, all [was] vanity... | |
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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. 
