Gen 3:19, Ecc 3:10, 4:4, 12:12 | ESV | STEP | By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread , till you return to the ground , for out of it you were taken ; for you are dust , and to dust you shall return .

Genesis 3:19

19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
^afor you are dust,
and ^bto dust you shall return.”

Ecclesiastes 3:10

10 I have seen ^cthe business that ^dGod has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

4 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is ^evanity ^{▼▼The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath”; also verses 7, 8, 16 (see note on 1:2)} and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

12 My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making ^gmany books there is no end, and ^hmuch study is a weariness of the flesh.