Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of labour— All these considerations are wearisome. Desvoeux.

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⁸ All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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