What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Job
WisdomThen the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesWhen I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraMaster, which is the great commandment in the law?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus
LawAnd he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Luke
GospelsWhen the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
John
GospelsPeradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Genesis
Law / MosesAdina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhen thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
Numbers
LawIn that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
Exodus
Law / MosesThat thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: