Amelia Gillen
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Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 2:21 ESV
because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Sep 9
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 2:20 ESV
So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,
Sep 9
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 2:18 ESV
I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,
Sep 9
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 2:19 ESV
and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
Sep 9
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 2:14 ESV
The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.
Sep 9
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 2:13 ESV
Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.
Sep 9
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 2:11 ESV
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Sep 9
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 2:2 ESV
I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?"
Sep 9
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 1:3 ESV
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 1:18 ESV
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 1:15 ESV
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 1:14 ESV
I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 1:9 ESV
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Ecclesiastes 1:7 ESV
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Proverbs 31:7 ESV
let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Proverbs 31:6 ESV
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Proverbs 31:5 ESV
lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Proverbs 31:4 ESV
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Proverbs 31:31 ESV
Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
Sep 8
Amelia Gillen
highlighted Proverbs 31:30 ESV
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Sep 8