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Who wins God’s favour, has wisdom and skill for his reward, and pleasure too; it is the sinner that is doomed to hardship and to thankless care, hoarding and scraping, and all to enrich some heir God loves better! For him frustration, for him the labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 2, 26)
I thought, too, of human toil and striving; how much it owed to man’s rivalry with his fellows! All was frustration and lost labour here. (Ecclesiastes 4, 4)
Better a handful (says he) quietly come by, than a whole armful that is all striving and labour lost.✻ (Ecclesiastes 4, 6)
Here is one that works alone, partner nor son nor brother to aid him, yet still works on, never content with his bright hoard, never asking, as he toils and stints himself, who shall gain by it. Frustration and lost labour, here too. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)
The old king, that had an immemorial line of ancestors;✻ and now posterity shall take no pride in him! All is frustration, and labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 4, 16)
By cruel misadventure they are lost to him, and to the son he has begotten nothing he leaves but poverty. (Ecclesiastes 5, 13)
Well made, the empty passage from light to darkness, well lost, the chance of earthly renown, (Ecclesiastes 6, 4)
Better aim at what lies in view than hanker after dreams. But indeed all is frustration, and labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 6, 9)
Arms cannot match wisdom; by one slip,✻ what great advantage is lost! (Ecclesiastes 9, 18)
Of words a fool has no stint …… What went before, is lost to man’s view, and what shall befall when he is gone, none can tell him.✻ (Ecclesiastes 10, 14)
That, or else yonder cord of silver will be loosed, yonder golden skein unravelled; pitcher broken beside the fountain, wheel lost in the well;✻ (Ecclesiastes 12, 6)
Oh, that sweet utterance! Nothing of him but awakes desire. Such is my true love, maidens of Jerusalem; such is the companion I have lost. (Song of Solomon 5, 16)
