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Ecclesiastes 1:11-13
1599 Geneva Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:11-13
1599 Geneva Bible
11 There is no memory of the former, neither shalt there be a remembrance of the latter that shall be, with them that shall come after.
12 ¶ [a]I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem:
13 And I have given mine heart to search and find out wisdom by all things that are done under the heaven: (this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men, [b]to humble them thereby.)
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- Ecclesiastes 1:12 He proveth that if any could have attained to felicity in this world by labor, and study, he chiefly should have obtained it, because he had gifts and aids of God thereunto above all others.
- Ecclesiastes 1:13 Man of nature hath a desire to know, and yet is not able to come to the perfection of knowledge, which is the punishment of sin, to humble man, and to teach him to depend only upon God.
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) 
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