Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.
Ecclesiastes 6:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Seeing that there are [all these and] many other things and words that increase the emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility [of living], what profit and what outcome is there for man? American Standard Version (1901) Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? Common English Bible Because the more words increase, the more everything is pointless. What do people gain by it? Catholic Public Domain Version There are many words, and many of these, in disputes, hold much emptiness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There are many words that have much vanity in disputing. |
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.
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.
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.
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.
For thus it cometh to pass through the multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou God.
Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago, and it is known that it is man: neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.
For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.