Ecclesiastes 1:13-15

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¹³And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. ¹⁴I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.^[a]

¹⁵What is crooked cannot be made straight,
and what is lacking cannot be numbered.

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Ecclesiastes 1:14 Or a feeding on wind. See Hos 12.1

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