• Ecclesiastes 1:8-15
  All things are full of labor;
  Man cannot express it.
  The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
  Nor the ear filled with hearing.
  That which has been is what will be,
  That which is done is what will be done,
  And there is nothing new under the sun.
  Is there anything of which it may be said,
  "See, this is new"?
  It has already been in ancient times before us.
  There is no remembrance of former things,
  Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come
  By those who will come after. I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
  What is crooked cannot be made straight,
  And what is lacking cannot be numbered.
   

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• James 4:4
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