Ecclesiastes 12:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

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?

Ecclesiastes 4:4

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

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

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:1

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

Ecclesiastes 1:12

I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.