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Date Posted: 05:59:36 07/24/08 Thu
Author: BC
Subject: What profit hath a man of all his labour?

"What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. - Then sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. - Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. - There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after." Ecclesiastes 1:3-11 (KJV)

(definition of)"profit" (Webster's 1828 Dictionary) - "In commerce, the advance in the price of goods sold beyond the cost of purchase. - Any gain or pecuniary - (relating to money) - advantage. - To benefit; to advantage; applied to one's self, to derive some pecuniary interest or some accession of good from any thing. - To improve; to advance."

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Mark 9:36-37 (KJV)

"gain" (Web. 1828) - "To have advantage or profit; to grow rich; to advance in interest or happiness."

"lose" (Web. 1828) - "To mislay; to part or be separated from a thing, so as to have no knowledge of the place where it is; - To forfeit by unsuccessful contest; - Not to gain or win; - To be deprived of. - To forfeit, as a penalty. - To ruin; to destroy. - To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; as, to lose the way. - To possess no longer. - Not to employ or enjoy. - To waste; to squander; to throw away. - To suffer; to vanish from view or perception. - To ruin; to destroy by shipwreck. - To cause to perish; as to be lost at sea. - To employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste. - To fail to obtain."

"Let no man anticipate uncertain profits." RAMBLER

"Like following life in creatures we dissect,
We lose it in the moment we detect." POPE

"soul" (Web. 1828) - The spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man which distinguishes him from brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which renders him a subject of moral government. The immortality of the soul is a fundamental article of the christian system. - The understanding; the intellectual principle." - Vital principle. - Spirit; essence; chief part. - Life; animating principle or part. - A human being, a person."

"Such is the nature of the human soul that it must have a God, an object of supreme affection." EDWARDS

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