Ecclesiastes 2:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹¹ When I considered all that I had accomplished  and what I had laboured to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind.  , There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Dugang nga mga bersyon

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Then I looked on all that my hands had done and the labor I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it, and there was no profit under the sun. [Matt. 16:26.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Common English Bible

¹¹ But when I surveyed all that my hands had done, and what I had worked so hard to achieve, I realized that it was pointless—a chasing after wind. Nothing is to be gained under the sun.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ But when I turned myself toward all the works that my hands had made, and to the labors in which I had perspired to no purpose, I saw emptiness and affliction of the soul in all things, and that nothing is permanent under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed.  Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

Exodus 39:43

Moses inspected all the work they had accomplished. They had done just as the Lord commanded. Then Moses blessed them.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.  ,

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge,  madness and folly;  I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a person gain for all his efforts that he labours at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What does the worker gain from his struggles?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

The one who loves silver is never satisfied with silver, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain  who struggles for the wind?

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the  Lord of Armies that the peoples labour only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is great gain.