Ecclesiastes 8:16 meaning and explanation

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—

Ecclesiastes 8:16, Berean Standard Bible

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The Teacher, Solomon's voice in this book, describes his own exhausting search for wisdom. He has set his mind to understand human labor "under the sun," the ordinary life lived apart from God's direct revelation.

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