Ecclesiastes 1:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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)

² Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Common English Bible

² Perfectly pointless, says the Teacher, perfectly pointless. Everything is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:2 Cross References

Job 11:12

7 And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day star.

Psalm 144:4

1 Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

Psalm 89:47

Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,

Ecclesiastes 2:11

8 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,

Ecclesiastes 2:15

2 For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:17

4 Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

6 God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

5 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighhour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

1 And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

Ecclesiastes 4:8

5 I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

7 All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.

Romans 8:20

8 And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.