Ecclesiastes 1:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² “Futility! Futility!” says Qoheleth. “Futility, futility, all is futile!”

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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!

Ecclesiastes 1:2 Cross References

Job 11:12

But a senseless man takes heart when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 89:47

Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for youth and dawn of life are futility.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

But if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they are many. All that is coming is futility.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Futility! Futility!” said the Qoheleth, “All is futile.”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

And I said in my heart, “As the event of the fool, even so it befalls me, and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart, “This also is futile.”

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was evil on me, for all is futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he is wise or foolish? Yet he shall rule over all my labour in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. That too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For a man might labour with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he leaves his heritage to a man who has not laboured for it. That too is futile and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sufferings, and his work grievous; even in the night his heart takes no rest. That too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His eyes. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give to him who is good before Elohim. That too is futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasures of sovereigns and of the provinces. I provided male and female singers for myself, and the pleasures of men – a woman and women.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the event of the sons of men is also the event of beasts – one event befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Indeed, they all have one breath – man has no advantage over beasts. For all is futile.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There was no end of all the people; all of whom he headed. But the ones who come afterward do not rejoice in him. For that too is futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I saw that all the toil and skill of the work bring envy between man and his neighbour. That too is futile 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.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves silver is not satisfied with silver; nor he who loves wealth, and increase. That too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The more words, the more futility – what is to man the advantage?

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to futility, not from choice, but because of Him who subjected it, in anticipation,