Ecclesiastes 4:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ Then I looked again at futility under the sun:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun [in one of its peculiar forms].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

Common English Bible

⁷ Next, I saw under the sun something else that was pointless:

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ While considering this, I also discovered another vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7 Cross References

Psalm 78:33

So He ended their days in a breath, And their years in trouble.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I looked again at all the oppression that is done under the sun: And see! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter; and power on the side of their oppressors, but they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a hand filled with rest than both hands filled with toil and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Zechariah 1:6

“But My words and My laws, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers?” “Then they turned back and said, ‘As יהוה  of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has done with us.’ ” ’ ”