 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...seek and search out by wisdom, concerning all things that are done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men, to be exercised therewith. Having shewn the vanity of things under the sun in general, Solomon proceeds to some special nml principal... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1825 - 398 pages
...to see and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are dqne under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.... | |
 | 1828 - 502 pages
...of spirit. But what shall we say, or shall we answer in the words of Solomon — ' This sore trouble hath God given to the sons of men, to be exercised therewith ,' But our comfort is, that it shall not be so for ever. We know that when he, the Lord Jesus, shall... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...seek and search out by wisdom concerning all tkhift that are done under the sun ; this sore IT .a ... hath God given to the sons of men " to be exercised therewith" ("toafflict them"). Ecrlrs. i. 3. 13. And being in an agony, he (Jraa) prayed more earnestly, and his... | |
 | Baptists - 1838 - 380 pages
...at a glance to me from hence, 'all things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.' " And a sore travail, sure enough, it is for any one to whom the most high God hath given such an occupation,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Avarice - 1836 - 328 pages
...approximate to the beauty and order which appeared in the first creation. But, " this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith," that they must now exert their own genius and physical energies, in beautifying their habitations,... | |
 | Richard Hurrell Froude - Theology - 1838 - 460 pages
...hearkened not unto Me." 1 SERMON II. RELIGIOUS USES OF INDUSTRY. ECCLESIASTES i. 13. " This sore travail hath God given to the sons of men, to be exercised therewith." 14 SERMON III. DILIGENCE IN SECULAR MATTERS. ROM. xii. 11. " Not slothful in business, fervent in prayer,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 326 pages
...approximate to the beauty and order which appeared in the first creation. But, " this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith," that they must now exert their own genius and physical energies, in beautifying their habitations,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Education - 1845 - 752 pages
...habitation approximate to the beauty and order which appeared in the first creation. But, "this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith," that they must now exert their own genius and physical energies, in beautifying their habitations,... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...thereby. This we judge to be the true meaning of the last clause of this verse — "this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith." The original word here rendered exercised, in all the instances noticed by Gesenius,with the exception... | |
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And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under the heavens; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. 
