I have seen the travail, which God hath given Better perhaps, I have seen the labour, or the business. As before, in the preceding verse, the thinker, once back in the old groove of thought, repeats himself, and we have the very words of ch. Ecclesiastes 1:13, but, as before, here also developed by a wider experience. In this feeling after the right "season" for each act, this craving for a harmony between man's will and the divine order, he recognises a divinely implanted instinct which yet finds no full satisfaction.

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