What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Job
WisdomAnd, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
LawShe hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
Ezra
HistoryThese be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
Leviticus
LawBut Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
Ezra
History / EzraYe shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus
Law / MosesEphraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Acts
HistoryHe sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomLet me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.