Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
8 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “many” →
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
If a man beget an hundred children , and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
