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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ecc 8:16 — When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also [ there is that] neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
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Solomon here records the result of his perplexing inquiries into the affairs of men, and the purposes, providence, and works of God. And when he examined with great attention and diligence into the works of God, he found he could neither comprehend nor explain them; and was persuaded, that no application or capacity would enable a man to fathom the depth of the Divine dispensations in this lower world. How vain, then, are all cavils against Divine providence; when we can neither understand, nor comprehend it! Ecc 8:9; Ecc 7:25 |
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Ecc 2:23; Ecc 4:8; Ecc 5:12; Gen 31:40; Psa 127:2 |
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Ecc 8:9 |
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. |
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Ecc 7:25 |
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness: |
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Ecc 2:23 |
For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. |
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Ecc 4:8 |
There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail. |
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Ecc 5:12 |
The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. |
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Gen 31:40 |
[Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. |
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Psa 127:2 |
[It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 8:16," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Ecc/8/16.html>.
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