Ecclesiastes 12:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Vapor of vapors and futility of futilities, says the Preacher. All is futility (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and transitoriness)!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

Common English Bible

⁸ Perfectly pointless, says the Teacher, everything is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all is vanity!

Ecclesiastes 12:8 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

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

Psalm 62:9

Men of low estate are but a breath, men of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Ecclesiastes 1:1

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:12

I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.