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Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
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Verse 10. Labour. Hebrew “and this was my portion of all my labour.” I perceived that I could not thus obtain content. Calmet.—“Thou (O God) hast made us for thyself, and our hearts are restless till they repose in thee.” Saint Augustine Conf. i. 1. Menochius.—Aurelius makes the same confession as Solomon, respecting the insatiable nature of his own heart, and the emptiness of pleasure, and so forth
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