 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 548 pages
...have laboured for the wind. Then we shall be forced to cry out, ' Vanity of vanities ! all is vanity ! What profit hath a man of all his labour, which he taketh under the sun? What hath pride profited us ? Or what good hath riches, with our vaunting, brought us?' All these things,... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...other devices. For a close, I wish, as once Chrysostome did, that this sentence, Eccles. ii. 11. (Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I laboured to do ; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there... | |
 | Christian life - 1867 - 348 pages
...Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." \\hat more mournful testimony can there be than his own ? — " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 508 pages
...men. Whatsoever mine eyes desired, I kept not from them ; I withheld not mine heart from any joy. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that 1 had laboured to do ; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit! What can... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...king of Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all' is vanity. 3 ? 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. 5... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pages
...pleasure, and leisure with repose. What further could he desire? Hear his concluding words. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought ; and on the labour that I had laboured to do ; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder - Religious thought - 1825 - 388 pages
...and whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them ; I withheld not my heart from any joy. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do ; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 620 pages
...HAPPINESS IS NOT TO BE FOUND. " VANITY of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun." The repetition of the language shews the earnestness of the speaker ; it conveys the result of his... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 692 pages
...HAPPINESS IS NOT TO BE FOUND. M VANITY of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun." The repetition of the language shews the earnestness of the speaker ; it conveys the result of his... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, all was u vanity and vexation of spirit, and... | |
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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and th-ere was no profit under the sun, What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh... 
