 | 1807 - 570 pages
...from 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 vanity and vexation pf spirit, aud there was no profit under... | |
 | Georg Joachim Zollikofer - 1807 - 682 pages
...I withheld not my heart from any joy." But hear likewife what judgment he paffes upon all this : ** 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 fpirit, and there was no profit under... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...ii. 4. I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards, See. to ver. 10. Ver. 11. 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 was no profit. Eccl.... | |
 | 1790 - 820 pages
...; for my hrart rejoiced in all my labour, and this wis my portion nt all my labour. Then I koked en 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 fpirir, and there was no profit... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them ; I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour; and this was my portion of all my labour.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pages
...fruit»." Ver. 5. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that briugeth forth trees." Ver. 6. 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 was no profit under... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1810 - 342 pages
...all other devices. For a close, I wish, as once Chrysostom did, that that sentence, Eccl. ii 11. (' 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 was no profit under... | |
 | Thomas Fairfax (3rd baron.) - 1810 - 234 pages
...but, unto thy name give we the praife. But, as for myfelf, and what I have done, I fay (with Solomon) I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, All was vanity, and vexation of fpirit. For, there is no... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...them, to observe by wisdom what real good and satisfaction they brought to the heart of man. 10. And whatsoever mine eyes desired, I kept not from them ; I withheld not my heart from any joy: for my heart rejoiced in all my labour; and this was my portion of all my labour.... | |
 | William Playfair - 1814 - 538 pages
...words of the wisest of men—- " I made me great works I builded me houses — I planted me vineyards: 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 was no profit under... | |
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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 there was no profit under the sun. 
