Ecclesiastes 1:14 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity, a striving after the wind and a feeding on wind.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ When I observed all that happens under the sun, I realized that everything is pointless, a chasing after wind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: all is emptiness and an affliction of the spirit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:14 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:8

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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 vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, 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 is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

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; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)