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Ecclesiastes 9:1

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considered in my heart: Heb. gave, or set to my heart, Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 7:25, Ecclesiastes 8:16, Ecclesiastes 12:9-10

that the: Ecclesiastes 8:14; Deuteronomy 33:3; 1 Samuel 2:9; 2 Samuel 15:25-26; Job 5:8; Psalms 10:14, Psalms 31:5; Psalms 37:5-6; Proverbs 16:3; Isaiah 26:12, Isaiah 49:1-4; Jeremiah 1:18-19; John 10:27-30; 1 Corinthians 3:5-15; 2 Timothy 1:12; 1 Peter 1:5

no man: Ecclesiastes 7:15; Psalms 73:3, Psalms 73:11-13; Malachi 3:15-18

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