King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1:13
“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.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 1
11
[There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.
12
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13
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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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
15
[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
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