 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 หน้า
...Thoughts of Men are Vanity. * Our Converfation, received by Tradition from our Fathers, is vain. *, And what Profit hath a Man of all his Labour which he taketh, and of the Vexation of his Heart , wherein he hath labour'd under the Sun? » He laboureth in vain,... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1757 - 332 หน้า
...experience of all mankind, That Riches profit not in the day of •wrath, Prov. xi. 4. What profit then hath a man of all his labour 'which he taketh under the Sun ? Ecelef. 5, 3. No more than if he had fat ftill and done nothing at all, if his labour was only for... | |
 | James Burgh - 1766 - 312 หน้า
...No author is more copious on this fubjeft than So LOMON. " Vanity of vanities, faith the preacher, all " is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour, " which he taketh under the fun ? I have feen all the " works that are done under the fun, and behold, all " is vanity and vexation... | |
 | 1788 - 598 หน้า
...king of Jerufalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, faith the Preacher, vanity of vanities : all- is vanity. 3 What, profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the fun ? 4 fl One generation pafieth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 538 หน้า
...flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."* Again in Ecdesiastes, " one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Le Cat, who was a man of strong abilities, did not sit down quietly under this scriptural condemnation.... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 หน้า
...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...generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. The sun alsoariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1804 - 342 หน้า
...But these, after all, are but new words to the old tune, " Vanity of " vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is " vanity. What profit hath...of all his labour which " he taketh under the sun ?" — to which may be answered in the words of the same preacher : " Whatsoever thy " hand findeth... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 หน้า
...vainer than vanity itself ; utterly insufficient 3 to procure solid satisfaction and durable happiness. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? he can Jind very little true satisfaction in all his pains about earthly things ; and none at all... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1806 - 406 หน้า
...made greater than what have been made ? Yet what profit hath a man of all his labor which he takcth under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the world continueth the same, the sun ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where... | |
 | 1807 - 570 หน้า
...nll is vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which lie taketh under the sun ? 4 ^f One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hastcth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind... | |
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Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 
