But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt
Ecclesiastes 1:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Vapor of vapors and futility of futilities, says the Preacher. Vapor of vapors and futility of futilities! All is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and vainglory). [Rom. 8:20.] American Standard Version (1901) Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Common English Bible Perfectly pointless, says the Teacher, perfectly pointless. Everything is pointless. Catholic Public Domain Version Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes vanity of vanities, and all is vanity. |
But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt
O remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and the prime of life are vanity.
Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
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 a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also was vanity.
So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me: for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
For there is a man whose labour is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, concubines very many.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.
There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Then I saw all labour and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this also is vanity.
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope