The God-Given Task
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h What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?
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i I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.
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He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that j no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
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I know that nothing is k better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives,
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and also that l every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor - it is the gift of God.
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I know that whatever God does,
It shall be forever.
m Nothing can be added to it,
And nothing taken from it.
God does it, that men should fear before Him.
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n That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been;
And God requires an account of what is past.
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Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.
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Job 5:9
Who does great things, and unsearchable, Marvelous things without number.
Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have proved by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise"; But it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover it, yet he will not find it; moreover, though a wise man attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it.
Romans 11:33
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
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Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Ecclesiastes 2:24
Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24
Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
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James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.